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

Update: 2025-10-24

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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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