France set to use curfews to halt riots

France will impose curfews “wherever it is necessary” and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of its suburbs, the prime minister said today, calling a return to order “our No. 1 responsibility”.

France’s worst civil unrest in decades tonight entered a 12th night as rioters in the southern city of Toulouse set fire to a bus and then pelted police with petrol bombs and rocks.