MAGHREB

• Sometimes, as in the case of the 2005 riots and of today’s, it is every rough neighbourhood that flares up.
• Throughout the past 40 years in France, urban revolts have been dominated by the rage of young people who attack the symbols of order and the state: town halls, social centres, schools, and shops.

An institutional and political vacuum

• Elected representatives, associations, churches and mosques, social workers and teachers admit their powerlessness, revealing an institutional and political vacuum.
• Numbering more than 100,000 people and prominently covered by the media, it was France’s first demonstration of its kind.
• Left-leaning paper Libération nicknamed it “La Marche des Beurs”, a colloquial term that refers to Europeans whose parents or grandparents are from the Maghreb.

Lessons to be learned

• The recurrence of urban riots in France and their scenarios yield some relatively simple lessons.
• Over the last 40 years, considerable efforts have been made to improve housing and facilities.
• Apartments are of better quality, there are social centres, schools, colleges and public transportation.
• More often than not, the residents are poor or financially insecure, and are either descendants of immigrants or immigrants themselves.

A constant face-off

• In this landscape, the state is reduced to legal violence and young people to their actual or potential delinquency.
• The police are judged to be “mechanically” racist on the grounds that any young person is a priori a suspect.
• Young people feel hatred for the police, fuelling further police racism and youth violence.
• The first element is the rise of the far right – and not just on that side of the political spectrum.

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• Minister Fraser also met the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson.
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• LONDON, Nov. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EY-Parthenon today announces that Jeff Wray has been appointed Global Leader with a focus on driving the strategy consultancy's global market agenda in FY22 and beyond.
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