Politiker hoffen, dass sich Unruhen in Frankreich nicht ausbreiten werden[en] 

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has authorised prefects everywhere in France to impose a curfew if they deemed it to be the right measure to stop the riots. "Our answer is decisiveness," Mr. de Villepin told the press. He was backed by the latest polls, which show that his popularity has not suffered from the uprising that started on 27 October 2005 following the death of two youths. 

Meanwhile, Islamists elsewhere in Europe are trying to use the French example to incite similar uprisings in their respective countries. Right-wingers and populists are using that same example to calling for curbs on immigration while mainstream politicians are stressing the particularity of the French situation. In what was widely regarded as copycat incidents, a few vehicles were burnt in Brussels and Berlin - far less than the thousands incinerated in France. The popular website of a Muslim extremist in the UK tried to spread the uprising to other European countries. 

In Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble, a conservative tipped to become Chancellor-designate Angela Merkel's interior minister, said: "The conditions in France are different from the ones we have. We don't have the gigantic high-rise housing projects that they have on the edges of French cities." Thomas Steg, a spokesman for German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, added: "I think we should stay away from drawing premature analogies and making prophecies as to whether similar developments would be possible here. The situation is not comparable."