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Believed to be the first suburban riot in French history. [3] 1981: Rodéo (riot), riots that consisted of stealing cars, driving them in tight circles, and ultimately burning them. 1990: Rioting in Vaulx-en-Velin after a young man of Spanish origin was killed in a motorbike crash allegedly caused by police. [3]
The melody was inspired by French police car sirens. [44] Vangelis released an album, Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit ("May you make your dreams longer than the night"), about the Paris student riots in 1968. It contains sounds from the demonstrations, songs, and a news report.
The 2005 French riots was a three-week long period of civil disturbances that took place in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities [4] [5] in October and November 2005. These riots involved youth in violent attacks, outbreaks of arson of vehicles and public buildings .
The 2005 French riots were in reaction to the death of two Muslim teenagers, electrocuted while hiding from police in an electrical substation. Then-prime minister Dominique de Villepin and his Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that the boys were thieves, which did little to calm the situation.
On 27 June 2023, Nahel Merzouk (25 February 2006 – 27 June 2023), [1] a 17-year-old French youth of Moroccan and Algerian descent, [2] was shot at point-blank range and killed by police officer Florian M., when he didn't comply with a request to turn off ignition and attempted to drive away in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, France.
2023 French unrest may refer to: Nahel Merzouk riots after the 27 June 2023 police killing near Paris; 2023 French pension reform strikes; See also
2005 French riots; Reactions to the 2005 French riots; Timeline of the 2005 French riots; 2006 youth protests in France; 2007–2009 university protests in France; 2009 French Caribbean general strikes; 2009 French riots; 2017 French riots; 2024 French protests against the National Rally
The 6 February 1934 crisis (also known as the Veterans' Riot [1]) was an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris, organized by multiple far-right leagues that culminated in a riot on the Place de la Concorde, near the building used for the French National Assembly. The police shot and killed 17 people, nine of whom were far-right ...