PARIS — The Los Angeles riots and aftermath have had a ripple effect even in distant France, inspiring government ministers to create new programs aimed at preventing similar outbreaks of urban violence here. In some cases, such as the decision to assign 4,000 military draftees to blighted urban areas to help with crime prevention and community services, the French programs exceed in scope many of the remedies under discussion in the United States.

Last month, the French Ministry for Urban Affairs unveiled a nine-point plan for soothing tensions and providing community programs in poor--mainly Arab and black African immigrant--suburban communities outside France's major cities.

The program was announced by Urban Affairs Minister Bernard Tapie, a flashy, self-made millionaire who grew up in poverty in the same kind of suburban communities where France faces its biggest problems.

Days later, Tapie, who said he had recruited leading business leaders and financiers to help with the program, was forced to resign after he was charged in French courts with making an illegal profit on a Japanese business deal. But Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy, stressing the urgency of confronting urban problems in the post-Los Angeles climate of social unrest, personally took charge of the Urban Affairs Ministry file and pledged to institute the programs.

Other programs in the urban plan announced by the French government included the creation of a corps of 500 paid "parent school assistants," recruited from the ranks of long-term unemployed to work in problem schools; the creation of night-and-day "citizen centers" in public housing projects to deal with community needs, and the launching of urban renewal construction projects in ten "especially run-down" communities. The government gave no estimate of the cost of the programs. Elsewhere in Europe, discussion of the Los Angeles riots has also been widespread.

In Britain, for example, the specter of Los Angeles has caused officials to examine the potential for a new outbreak of violence in the racially troubled Brixton area of London, where serious race riots erupted in the late 1980s.

A series of violent acts by a gang of young motorcyclists in Coventry, West Midlands, concerned authorities there. The gang members have challenged police and torched several businesses in the public housing projects where unemployment is rampant.