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Matt Pintis. I'm going to tell you about the iconic film that sent shot waves through French society

and made politicians sit up and take notice. It's been 30 years since Mathiocazevich sat down to write his explosive critique of French brutality.

This is the story of Latin.

It's the 5th of April 1993 in Paris.

Film director Mathieu is sitting in his car after a long day on set.

He turns on the radio. I heard on the radio that a kid got shot in the

head and he was handcuffed in a police precinct and he got shot by a cop. That kid

was Macomb Mbowo.

A 17 year old from Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He was arrested on suspicion of stealing cigarettes and taken to a police station.

He was shot by a police officer during the interrogation.

So I went to the police precinct and there was some people there, you know, the family of the kid was mourning and people

were, heard it on the radio and were coming to show their respect.

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