When he spoke, Darioush Forouhar and his wife had already been killed but the grisly murders of three other Iranians had yet to be committed. "President Khatami went to the United States to speak at the UN, to tell Iranian people to come back, to invest, to promise them that in Iran everything is now done according to the law. "Forouhar's murder was an attempt to show the world - and Iranians - that Iran is not safe."Now the demonstration of lawlessness has gone beyond even my informant's worst nightmares. "WE ARE expecting some more assassinations," a source close to the Iranian security services told me a few weeks ago. About 5 million Muslims live in France, including hundreds of thousands of French-born children of North African Arab origin.Similar incidents took place in Dammarie-les-Lys, south of Paris, on Saturday where six cars were burned and petrol bombs thrown at a police vehicle.. They said he was left unattended for over an hour in a gutter where he died.Social workers said the incidents followed months of tension between police and youths who complained of harassment, with some saying they were stopped for identity checks up to 10 times a day.Police said on Friday they broke up a gang in the Mirail neighbourhood, where the main clashes took place, which had held up six banks and carried out 20 attacks against shops by ramming cars into the windows.Outbursts of anger like those in Toulouse have increased in recent years and police are wary of entering many low-income, immigrant neighbourhoods except in large groups.

He said the policemen failed to report the incident when they returned from patrol, apparently assuming Habib had managed to escape.The young man's friends told reporters police had fired six shots and hit him twice. Bus drivers in Toulouse struck after one was attacked during riots. The Urban Affairs minister, Claude Bartolone, cancelled a scheduled visit to the city without explanation.In a statement last nightMichel Breard, State Prosecutor, said the policemen opened fire on Habib as he tried to escape in a stolen BMW after breaking into another vehicle with an accomplice at 3am.Mr Breard said the young man was hit by a single shot through the shoulder and chest and was found dead three hours later. Public transport workers in dozens of cities have gone on strike in recent months to protest against the violence.

Six officers were hurt when violence flared into rioting on Sunday following the fatal shooting ofHabib Muhammed, 17, during a car theft. The violence erupted again overnight despite the arrest earlier of two policemen and the suspension of a third in connection with the shooting.The violence was the latest outbreak resulting from tension between police and disaffected youths from poor immigrant families in many cities in France. In fresh clashes last night which saw rioters stone police and bombard them with petrol bombs, a French journalist was stabbed in the stomach and a police officer was injured. RIOTING YOUTHS went on the rampage for the second successive day in suburbs ofToulouse, south-west France, yesterday after the police shot and killed a teenager at the weekend. Asked by reporters how many times he had pulled the trigger, he had replied: "Once. The man fell down immediately."The trial is expected to continue until late February.. In the light of the new investigation, Mr Muller's first press conference in the West, before the final, radically different, version, is construed as a confession. Witnesses have come forward describing the event as a simple case of shoot-and-run, with Mr Muller, now 67, cast as the man who fired the fatal bullet.

Mr Muller, meanwhile, was feted by the West for his daring raid.Now, nine years after the fall of the wall, Berlin prosecutors believe the enemy might have had a point. Mr Muller was allowed to dig his tunnel from the West Berlin basement of the rabidly anti-communist newspaper publishers Axel-Springer Verlag. Then, upon his triumphant return to West Berlin, the authorities adjusted the story of his escape, blaming the death of a 20-year-old East German private, named Reinhold Huhn, on a fellow guard.According to the statement he gave to West Berlin police after his escape, Mr Muller crossed to the East on 18 June 1962 to bring his family to the building near Checkpoint Charlie where his tunnel led. They were stopped by the guard, who was armed with a machine gun.