Why has a teenager’s death triggered riots in France?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The officer who shot Nahel has been charged with voluntary homicide and his lawyer says he is "devastated". The teen's death has revived grievances about policing and racial profiling in France's suburbs.
Some 3,000 people have been arrested so far and the mayor of Paris suburb L'Hay-les-Roses, Vincent Jeanbrun’s home was ram-raided by a burning car as his family slept over the weekend.
On the Sky News Daily, host Sally Lockwood hears from our Europe correspondent Adam Parsons in Paris who has been covering this story since the riots kicked off. And Jean Beaman, who has studied and written about state violence in France, explains the deeper-rooted racism still present across society.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
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| 0:00.0 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:04.0 | Fine, she'd say. |
| 0:06.0 | She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:07.0 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. |
| 0:11.0 | Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, |
| 0:15.0 | same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:19.0 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. |
| 0:23.2 | Can't get a word in. |
| 0:25.0 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:26.5 | Train others. |
| 0:27.7 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 0:30.1 | This Easter at M&S, you'll find a selection of the yummias chocolate animals. |
| 0:34.5 | There's hiccup the hippo with his darling chubby little legs. And Sunny the |
| 0:38.9 | sloth beaming with his milk and white chocolate features. Toby the T-Rex, who's a bit green, |
| 0:44.6 | bit scary, but charming at the same time. And Ralph the Cavapoo. I almost don't want to bite |
| 0:50.6 | his scrumptious little nose right off. But I will. |
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| 1:07.3 | I'm Sally Lockwood and on this episode of the Sky News Daily. It's been the soundtrack in cities across France. |
| 1:16.2 | Tear gas fired by riot police, cars set a light, businesses looted and buses smashed up. |
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