Despair turns to fury, but it's not too late to end France's war with
itself
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1792485,00.html
People in the explosive estates around Paris know what they want:
respect, recognition and representation
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday June 8, 2006
The Guardian
Last Sunday I watched France playing football. This was a match more
important than the World Cup for the future of France. It took place at
a tatty stadium in Clichy-sous-Bois, the small town in the
north-eastern outskirts of Paris where last autumn's nationwide
explosion of anger began after two teenagers, Bouna Traore and Zyed
Benna, were electrocuted when they hid from the police in an
electricity substation. Now I leaned against the railings with Bouna's
elder brother, who, like so many others, wore a T-shirt saying "Bouna
and Zyed ... dead for nothing". As we watched two teams from
communities of immigrant origin play a rather desultory game on a bumpy
pitch, he told me a story I would hear again and again over three days
spent visiting the now notorious high-rise housing estates of
Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil.
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