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EPISODE · Oct 24, 2025

2005 riots: Have Paris's underprivileged suburbs left their violent past behind?

from Revisited · host FRANCE 24 English

It’s been two decades since a wave of riots in France was sparked by the tragic death of two young men fleeing a police patrol in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. Have lessons been learnt, or could tensions over youth unemployment and police harassment easily explode again in France’s underprivileged suburbs? FRANCE 24’s Ségolène Malterre and Mélina Huet met residents to find out.

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