On October 27, 2005, two young boys from Clichy-sous-Bois, Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, were electrocuted in an EDF (French electricity company) transformer, and a third, Muhaittin Attun, was seriously injured; they had taken refuge there to escape the police. This tragedy sparked the largest riots in contemporary French history, to such an extent that the government at the time declared a state of emergency and imposed curfews: measures reminiscent of a troubled past or the present of any dictatorship... These urban uprisings, by their duration and their spread throughout the country, were exceptional and powerfully revealed the complexities of social and urban life. For if the tragic ...
Source: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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