right government of his predecessor, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, contributed to the current crisis. Villepin spoke as a new poll showed that nearly three of four French adults disapproved of his handling of the crisis. The survey, taken November 4 and 5 by the LH2 institute, found that 71 per cent of respondents believed the government's response to the unrest "went in the wrong direction". Villepin's comments came after news that the unrest may have taken its first fatality, when a man who was attacked Friday by a hooded youth died of his injuries. Jean-Jacques, 61, was struck in the face late Friday while talking with a neighbour in front of the house in which they lived in the Paris suburb of Stains. Le Chenadec collapsed, struck his head and fell into a coma from which he never recovered. "I want that these people are punished," his widow told journalists as she was being received by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. --More 2339 Local Time 2039 GMT
