
France Riots, Explained
The Dispatch Podcast
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The Underlying Issue That Drove the Shooting of a Young Man in Paris
The trigger was the killing by police of a 17 year old man named Nael, a young man of Algerian origin. It looked like a traffic stop and the cop shouting, I'm going to kill you and then shooting him in the head apparently for no reason. This set off, this killing, it's been compared to George Floyd, it's set off. You have in a country somewhere between the size of California and Texas, 70 million people, 45,000 police and other security forces being mobilized across the country.
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