US EditionTwenty Years After the Deaths of Zyed and Bouna: a More Armed Police Force and...
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After the death of the two teenagers who had triggered three weeks of urban riots in France in 2005, the political response remains, according to sociologist François Dubet, well below the stakes of disadvantaged neighbourhoods. ...
We will come back to a tragedy that occurred twenty years ago: the death of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, two teenagers whose tragic destiny has changed France and left a lasting mark on our consciences.
Twenty years ago to the day, on 27 October 2005, two teenagers died electrocuted in an electric transformer in Clichy-sous-Bois. The death of Zyed and Bouna will ignite the French suburbs for three weeks.
On 27 October 2005, after being prosecuted by police, Bouna Traoré, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, took refuge in an EDF site and died there, electrocuted, causing an unprecedented wave of riots throughout the country, which lasted three weeks.
On 27 October 2005, the two 17- and 15-year-olds died electrocuted in an EDF transformer, where they sought refuge to escape from the police.
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