The town of Nanterre is shaken by nights of rioting after 17-year-old Nahel was shot by police.
The French interior minister has asked regions to ban the sale of fireworks, petrol cans and flammable productsCome to Nanterre to get an all-round view of the crisis boiling over in France. But if you are a journalist, be advised to keep your head down.Le 35At the scene where police shot dead a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent last Tuesday, women in Islamic headscarves shout abuse at police and the media from passing cars.
"The last three nights have been appalling. Between midnight and 4am it is bedlam outside our windows. No-one can sleep. I feel like I'm living on another planet," says Lucille. "What was she doing up on that open-top van in the march? It was undignified. That wasn't a march of grief. She's playing politics." The others nod in agreement.Public buildings like this tax office have been singled out for attack in Nanterre and across Francewho heads the Hauts-de-Seine department has come to survey the wreckage that was the front of the local tax office. "Deplorable, lamentable," he says.
Cyril, however, says he is broadly sympathetic with people who want to protest against Tuesday's killing.police is correct. Let's just say they have an attitude. The kids around here have all had rough treatment, often because they were doing something stupid, sure. The town of Nanterre is far from the hellhole of isolated social deprivation some would like to depict. It is spacious, clean and two stops on the commuter train from the Arc de Triomphe in the centre of Paris.There is a theatre, a university, the national opera dance school, and a large park named after former President Charles de Gaulle's culture minister André Malraux. Unfortunately, yesterday the children's roundabout that has stood there for the last 50 years was burned down.
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