The World - News from May 31, 1988

French police arrested 23 youths after bands of neo-Nazi “skinheads” injured seven people in a weekend rampage through the streets of Rouen and Brest, authorities said. The incidents began over the weekend when groups of young people with shaved heads drove in two vans through the town of Rouen, in Normandy province. Armed with iron bars and baseball bats, they periodically stopped and beat up people, police said. Fifteen were arrested. The next day, about 300 miles away in Brittany province, at least 150 skinheads rampaged through Brest after a rock concert was canceled. Eight were arrested.