France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls, born in Barcelona, spoke in favour of bullfighting earlier this month.
Valls said those suffering most from the disorder were the residents of the neighborhood affected.
Mr Valls may be right, but the French do not seem ready to listen.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls visited Chamonix on Thursday afternoon to see the rescue efforts for himself.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls said the killings were "surely an execution" and President Francois Hollande described them as "horrible".
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Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the Pope would "cherish" the visit as one of the highlights of his papacy.
Among them, Manuel Valls, a Socialist deputy and telegenic former speechwriter for Lionel Jospin, an ex-prime minister, has been outspoken.
French President Francois Hollande described the killings as "horrible", while Interior Minister Manuel Valls said they were "surely an execution".
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Valls said he had not come to Amiens to point the finger at anyone, but the rule of law must be followed.
Valls acknowledged there is tension between police and the community after the incident and said an inquiry has been ordered into the police operation.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls said France's internal and external security services are "particularly vigilant" amid a "very strong and permanent, " terrorist threat in France.
The real revelation of the primary has been the energetic clarity of two younger, less-known candidates: Arnaud Montebourg (aged 48) and Manuel Valls (49).
Valls also condemned violence that broke out Thursday evening at a march against same-sex marriage, when "organized groups" refused to disperse and clashed with police.
Valls said it was too soon to establish any responsibility for what had happened, and asked people to wait for the results of an investigation.
Speaking at a news conference in Amiens, Valls said that the violence shown toward police was "unacceptable" and that law and order must be restored.
Mr Valls said the remaining protesters were mostly from far-right groups.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls said there had been dozens of arrests.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who recently visited the island, has promised Corsicans that "the fight for the security is carried out with the greatest resolve".
But while trains have resumed, road conditions in France remain difficult as snow has turned major motorways into ice traps, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said.
Mr Valls has become more popular among the French at large, but at the primary he looks set to win little more than 5% of the vote.
Paris (CNN) -- Seventeen police officers were injured in violent clashes with young people in the city of Amiens in northern France overnight, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who visited the scene later with Housing Minister Cecile Duflot, said "we met a family devastated by grief, trying to comprehend what has happened".
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Some are even arguing that it is all different now, citing the less racially incendiary rhetoric of Mr Hollande and Mr Valls and the abolition of quotas for repatriation.
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"Rest assured that French authorities are determined to get to the bottom of these intolerable acts, " French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said, adding that the killings were "surely an execution".
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the mission was prompted by the pontiff's "desire for peace in the Holy Land and his concern for the Christian community and the Israeli and Palestinian peoples".
Valls paid tribute to the efforts of the emergency workers, French and Italian, who searched in perilous conditions of snow, ice and wind from the early morning for those who were missing.
"There are elements the sudden violence of the attack that could lead one to believe there might be a comparison with what happened in London, " Interior Minister Manuel Valls told France 2 television.
Earlier Tuesday, Valls traveled with President Francois Hollande to the Var area, in southeastern France, to pay tribute to two women police officers who were killed in the line of duty in June, BFM reported.
The pair also neatly embody the stark choice that the French left has never really confronted: between a return to the old-style protectionism that Mr Montebourg calls deglobalisation, and a recognition that the debt crisis and globalisation have changed the rules, as Mr Valls urges.
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