French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin cancelled a trip to Canada on Wednesday to tackle spreading unrest in poor Paris suburbs and quell a damaging public row between his ministers over how to respond.Street fighting, sparked by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted while apparently fleeing police during a local disturbance, spread to other parts of the poor suburbs ringing the capital to the north and the east, police said.A heavy police presence kept a tense order in Clichy-sous-Bois as disturbances broke out in previously quiet areas. A total of 34 people were detained by police overnight, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told Europe 1 radio network. After a sixth night of unrest, Dominique Villepin summoned eight ministers to a crisis meeting on problem neighbourhoods. The unrest has stoked bitter rivalry between Villepin and his deputy Sarkozy ahead of 2007 presidential elections.The unrest in the northern and eastern suburbs, heavily populated by North African and black African minorities, was fuelled by youths' frustration at their failure to get jobs and recognition in French society. Those problems face governments across Europe but the French unrest has also highlighted fault lines dividing a conservative government split between supporters of Sarkozy and allies of Chirac and the loyalist Villepin. —Reuters
