PARIS - After the deaths of Zyed Benny and Bouna Traoré 20 years ago, President Jacques Chirac rebuked his minister Nicolas Sarkozy and his stigmatising speeches about working-class neighbourhoods. Young working-class Frenchmen recalled the repression. Today these comments have become common, from Bruno Retailleau to the far right.
Dark Night for the Republic, October 27, 2005. Zyed, Bouna and Muhittin try to escape police control in Clichy-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis. The three young people take refuge in an electrical transformer. This hiding place proves fatal for the first two teenagers, aged 17 and 15. The third is seriously injured. Meanwhile, the city experiences riots that spread like an avalanche outside Paris. More than 500 municipalities are affected.
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