More than 100 Inner Mongolian police officers staffed the road, the Jingzang Highway, in an effort to break the jam, which stretched for 75 miles and involved 10,000 vehicles, the state broadcaster CCTV said Thursday.
Prosecutors and inner-city police forces were condemned yesterday for their "shocking" lack of action against suspects who were later arrested and charged.
The officers were members of the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, or Crash, unit of an inner-city police station, the Rampart Division.
Inspector Ian Scott, of Leeds north west inner neighbourhood policing team says: It is very unusual for us to have a series of robberies of this nature in such a short space of time.
But a bright point has been an art project to project images of Dhu and her grandmother, Carol Roe, on to the walls of prominent Perth buildings, including two inner-city police stations.
Continuing to prosecute for possession of cannabis, for example, was shown in a report last year for the drug charity Release to have a seriously distorting effect on inner-city policing.
What most disturbed people about this outburst — coupled as it was with the Sarkozy government's increasingly ham-fisted policies on inner-city policing and the expulsion of immigrants — was what they saw as its unspoken assumption that as a black woman of African parentage, NDiaye should have to prove herself deserving in a way that would never be demanded of white male laureates.
For hours the silent inner ring of police barricades stretching around much of the Latin Quarter stood surrounded by a noisy outer ring of student barricades.
Baraka offered a workable vision of a nation without state violence, inner cities without police as occupying forces and vulnerable citizens not viewed as enemy combatants.
The captain of P&O ferry Spirit of Britain, who witnessed Berlioz crew members dousing the throng to prevent them boarding, was told by port authorities to wait in the inner harbour until police arrived.
