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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 .
(Yves Bot, procureur général de Paris, Radio France) night of 5-6/11/2005 Saturday-Sunday ditto + ... 1295v. (741IdF/554P), 312 arrests. English version: 2005 Paris suburb riots Version française: Émeutes de 2005 en banlieue parisienne
A car burns in Strasbourg, France on the night of 5 November as riots spread from the Paris banlieues to other parts of the country. The following is a timeline of the 2005 French riots that began Thursday, 27 October 2005. Where the source lists events as occurring in a night and following morning, this article lists them on the date of the ...
Violent clashes between hundreds of youths and French police in the Paris banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois began on 27 October 2005 and continued for more than 17 nights. [9] The 2005 Paris suburb riots were triggered by the deaths of two teenagers (of black and Maghrebi descent) allegedly attempting to hide from police in an electrical substation ...
The word banlieue, which is French for "suburb", does not necessarily refer to an environment of social disenfranchisement.Indeed, there exist many wealthy suburbs, such as Neuilly-sur-Seine (the wealthiest commune of France per capita) and Versailles (the former royal capital) outside Paris.
A car burns in Strasbourg, France on the night of November 5 as riots spread from the Paris banlieues to other parts of the country. The Paris Fire Brigade developed an "Urban Violence Plan", inspired by the experience of firefighters in Northern Ireland (Libération, Oct. 29). The "hot zone" is identified and the fire engines wait outside this ...
2005: 2005 French riots, a series of riots that occurred in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities involving the burning of cars and public buildings at night. 2006: 2006 youth protests in France, riots resulting from opposition to a measure set to deregulate labour in France.
La Haine opens with a montage of news footage depicting urban riots in a banlieue in the commune of Chanteloup-les-Vignes near Paris. In the aftermath of the riots, a local man named Abdel Ichaha is gravely injured in police custody and is in intensive care. The riots escalate, leading to a siege of the local police station and the loss of a ...