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France: 20 Years of Ethnic Wars

Twenty years ago, in October 2005, two young boys, Zyed and Bouna, sought refuge in an electrical transformer while trying to escape a police check and died there. In response, violent riots broke out in Clichy, in the Paris suburbs, before spreading throughout France and causing chaos for three long weeks. Since then, these events, which were unprecedented at the time, have been repeated and will continue to be repeated: the lessons of this epi…

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It was 20 years ago, on 27 October 2005, two miners who were clearly ill-insulated chose to become symbols of resistance at 100 ks: by entering a transformer in order to escape an identity check, the electrocution of Zyed and Bouna were going to trigger three weeks of domestic brothels in France. And in 20 years, many things happened but if some have changed, it is not better. The cities still exist. Some of them have of course benefited from a …

Twenty years ago, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré lost their lives in Clichy-sous-Bois trying to escape from the police. Their tragic death set fire to the powders, causing three weeks of unprecedented riots all over France. Back to a landmark episode of our recent history. An afternoon...

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