Shops are looted, bus shelters destroyed, cars and even town halls set on fire: the death of Nahel, who was shot dead by a policeman in Nanterre (Paris) on Tuesday, has set the whole of France ablaze. France connoisseur Frederik Dhondt (VUB) is not surprised. “No one knows how long this will last, but it is not the repression that will cool things down,” he says.
ttn-3
INTERVIEW. France connoisseur about the riots: “For the French, the street is an arena, even Louis XIV already knew it”
