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“Before Killing Someone, You Have to Dirty Them”: What Sarkozy’s Kärcher Did to the Suburbs

"Cleaning up working-class neighborhoods with a pressure washer": twenty years later, Nicolas Sarkozy's words still resonate. This racism, "now reasonable," has left an indelible mark on people of color. On June 19, 2005, a child died in La Courneuve, in Seine-Saint-Denis. Eleven-year-old Sidi-Ahmed Hammache collapsed from a bullet that wasn't meant for him, in the housing project of 4,000. The next day, Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Int…
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"Cleaning up working-class neighborhoods with a pressure washer": twenty years later, Nicolas Sarkozy's words still resonate. This racism, "now reasonable," has left an indelible mark on people of color. On June 19, 2005, a child died in La Courneuve, in Seine-Saint-Denis. Eleven-year-old Sidi-Ahmed Hammache collapsed from a bullet that wasn't meant for him, in the housing project of 4,000. The next day, Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Int…

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