All calls fade away, all appeals to reason. France’s banlieues can’t find peace, it can’t be decreed from above. Neither by the President, who beseeches the parents, and certainly not by the massive presence of the police and gendarmes. Since the death of Nahel, the 17-year-old occasional courier from Nanterre near Paris, by a police officer’s shot, the nights in the country’s suburbs have turned into large, burning stages of violence. Young people, including very young people, attack police barracks, set cars on fire and loot shops.
Unrest in France: Kylian Mbappé as the voice of reason – politics
