Why has a teenager’s death triggered riots in France?
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The Importance of Non-Term Control in France
Nail's grandmother has since said that some of the people being violent and rioting are using her son's name as a pretext for destroying all this stuff. Early stages of this were driven by anger but then you have several days later, people in distant cities looting shops and stealing TVs. I don't think that anybody can pretend that that is an act of protest because of the death of a teenager many hundreds of miles away. It's a social, economic, cultural problem and successive French administrations have talked about addressing it and they haven't. We saw them ourselves who had lookouts on corners with rocks. And anybody going in was getting pelted with rocks, was getting intimidated, was getting
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