Maxime Tandonnet: "How to avoid the eternal return of the conflagration of the suburbs"

Maxime Tandonnet is a historian and essayist. He was also political advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy during the 2005 riots.

Eighteen years already. On October 27, 2005, the French suburbs went up in flames following the death of two young boys in Clichy-sous-Bois, who had taken refuge in an EDF transformer to escape police control. Parts of Seine-Saint-Denis, The riots spread like wildfire throughout the French territory: more than 300 municipalities were affected. They lasted almost three weeks, until 17 November.

The toll of these events was dramatic: 10,000 vehicles and more than 200 public buildings were burned, especially nurseries, schools, thousands of square meters of commercial and industrial buildings. 130 police officers were injured, as were firefighters and medics, sometimes as a result of live ammunition. The events resulted in at least two deaths. More than 12,000 police officers...

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