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Has anything changed for this Paris suburb that burned before?

After riots in the French suburban housing estates in 2005 , the French government invested billions of euros to revamp the areas, but the similarity of the recent riots, and what spurred them, almost a generation later, raises questions over the failure of those efforts.

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11 July 2023 à 02h04

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In the fall of 2005, Faisal Daaloul was a young adult protesting in the streets of Clichy-sous-Bois, an impoverished Paris suburb seething over the death of two teenagers as they were pursued by police officers, reports The New York Times.

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