2005: Social Anger or Ethnic Anger?

Causeur

Right

Factuality

Ownership

On 27 October 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois (93), fleeing police control and fearing of being late for the Ramadan cut-off meal, the young Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré entered the enclosure of an electric station and died electrocuted. The media questioned the police, while the suburbs where immigration was concentrated simmered. For three weeks, riots broke out in many cities. Faced with the scale of the unrest, the government declared the state of e…