PARIS, Nov. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The French Communist Party (PCF) called for the resignation of Nicolas Sarkozy from the post of French Interior Minister on Friday, saying his policy is "a total failure".

    "Nicolas Sarkozy should resign from his post," said the PCF in a statement.

    "The interior minister's policy, recycling ideas of the far-right is more than a total failure: it stirs all the tensions and generates the results strictly contrary to what it pretends to obtain," said the PCF led by Marie-George Buffet.

    The PCF also called on the French government to recognize its failure in public and decide a radical change of its public security policy.

    The riots began Thursday and Friday night in Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), home to immigrants often from Muslim North Africa in northeast Paris, where two local teenagers, Ziad, 17, and Banou, 15, were accidentally electrocuted Thursday while they were running away from police.

    The violence has kept on spreading each night, eventually to areas surrounding Paris before flaring up also in Marseille, Dijonand in Normandy -- and even in central parts of the capital itself.

    Over 1,000 vehicles were torched and more than 200 people arrested amid fears that the country's racial and social divisions were fueling the violence, the worst seen since a 1968 student revolt. Enditem