Twenty Years After the 2005 Riots: "the Fractures of Priority Neighbourhoods Have Spread Throughout France"

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On 27 October 2005, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré died electrocuted in an electric station in Clichy-sous-Bois, following a chase with the police. The deaths of the two teenagers caused riots in the suburbs. Twenty years later, the social divides that affect these territories spread to the rest of France, says Thibault Tellier, historian of the suburbs.