Three Nights of Riots in France After Police Kill Youth

"France has seen a wave of massive protests following the death of a teen at the hands of police.
On Thursday, air traffic controllers at Paris’ Beauvais Airport saw a complete shutdown of flights as travelers flock to the top tourism destination.
In Nanterre, the working-class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a vigil.
Protesters scrawled “Vengeance for Nahel” across buildings and as night set a bank was lit on fire.
In central Paris, a Nike shoe store was broken into after store windows were smashed along the rue de Rivoli shopping street, Paris police said.
Fires and fireworks erupted in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille."
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Three Nights of Riots in France After Police Kill Youth

France has seen a wave of massive protests following the death of a teen at the hands of police.

On Thursday, air traffic controllers at Paris’ Beauvais Airport saw a complete shutdown of flights as travelers flock to the top tourism destination.

In Nanterre, the working-class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a vigil.

Protesters scrawled “Vengeance for Nahel” across buildings and as night set a bank was lit on fire.

In central Paris, a Nike shoe store was broken into after store windows were smashed along the rue de Rivoli shopping street, Paris police said.

Fires and fireworks erupted in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille.

Videos on social media showed numerous fires across the country, including at a bus depot in a suburb north of Paris and a tram in the eastern city of Lyon.

In Marseille, France’s second city, police fired tear gas grenades during clashes with youths in the tourist hot-spot of Le Vieux Port.

The incident is one of many examples of the racism enforced by the police and their subjugation of low-income, racially mixed suburbs around major cities in France.

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The roots of the French riots

"The comparisons between the revolts which have shaken #France since the police murder of a 17-year-old last Tuesday and those which shook France in 2005 are unavoidable. In 2005 two teenagers, Zyed and Bouna, were chased into an electricity bunker in the eastern suburbs of #Paris where were both electrocuted to death. Three weeks of rioting followed in France, the youth angry about the police state, angry about racism, angry about the relegation of the cities. Eighteen years later, even if the media, society and political culture have evolved, not much seemed to have changed in the relationship between young people of colour and the police. On Monday of this week, with fires still smouldering in cities across the country, a news announcer calmly announced that “this three-day period of rioting” had done more damage than the rioters were able to do in three whole weeks 2005. There is something sly and mediatic in this turn of phrase – as if the state has decided – “here, you’ve had your fun for three days, there will not be a fourth”.

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Streikende Bullen zur Durchsetzung von #Polizeigewalt #Frankreich

"Hedi spricht ruhig in die Kamera. Der Kopf des 21-Jährigen, dessen Familie aus dem Maghreb stammt, ist deformiert. Links fehlt ein Teil des Schädelknochens. Hedi, der bis zu seinen Verletzungen in der Gastronomie arbeitete, erzählt dem Team der Medienplattform Konbini von der Nacht auf den 2. Juli, die sein Leben brutal verändert hat.
Er und seine Freunde seien an dem Abend in Marseille - einem Hotspot der Unruhen nach dem Tod des 17-jährigen Nahel M. bei einer Verkehrskontrolle in der Nähe von Paris - der Spezialeinheit BAC über den Weg gelaufen. Es habe einen Wortwechsel gegeben.
Als Hedi sich wegdreht, spürt er einen heftigen Schlag am Kopf. Wie sich später herausstellen wird, hatte ihn ein Gummigeschoss aus einer Polizeiwaffe getroffen. Anschließend hätten die Polizisten ihn in eine dunkle Ecke geschleift, berichtet der junge Mann: "

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