The crisis of French suburbs

"After last autumn's crisis, the flames of the suburbs are no longer lighting up television screens. The routine car burning goes on, but in the dark", points out Gerard Dupuy, a year after riots broke out in French suburbs. "We have allowed pockets of cumulative handicap, poverty, failure and delinquency to come grow. ... A few months away from the double election of next spring, there is doubtless no subject more serious or more urgent than that of the suburbs. Approaching it from a security angle, renewed in some recent raids staged in the early hours of the morning [by the police force] with cameras and robocops is suicidal, whatever the electoral consequences may be. Not only does it address the consequences rather than the causes, it exacerbates the latter in so doing."

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