The riots in the country's suburban estates have subsided, for now, but deep divisions remain.
The Pablo Picasso housing estate in Nanterre, west of Paris, where 17-year-old Nahel lived with his motherCalm has returned to La Grande Borne. Local mafia again exercise lazy control from the doorways of this vast housing estate south of Paris; their guns on show, their faces hidden., they are better equipped than us; they have better weapons," one police officer told us, on condition we keep his identity hidden.
Distrust and resentment smoulder beneath the surface in places like La Grande Borne, less visible than the weapons carried by gangs here, but just as likely to explode. "My first encounter with police was when I was 10 years old," he explained, as we sat in the simple concrete playground he used to visit as a child, surrounded by low-rise apartment blocks.
"With the police of proximity, there was a lack of violence, a lack of criminality," he said. "The language [was] great; they respected people. You have to put people together to feel each other."Djigui - whose name means "hope" in Mali's Bambara language - said he had been called "gorilla" and "monkey" by police officers during ID checks. which explored the racial divisions between residents and police in his community.
What's striking this time, he said, was that "no one - no association - has called for calm" because they no longer have the authority to influence the situation.
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