Looters broke into a gun shop in Marseille and more than a thousand arrests were made across France as riots continued for a fourth night. Violent protests spread throughout the country after a 17-year-old, named as Nahel Merzouk, was shot by police during a traffic stop in th...
This cautious reform came too late to win acceptance in many parts of the empire. The situation was most serious inSoutheast Asia, where the Japanese had displaced the French duringWorld War II. Japan’s defeat in 1945 enabled the French to regain control of southernIndochina, but the norther...
Every time there’s an election in France, there’s a lot of tut-tutting about this situation and promises to phase out the practice. Last year Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that his ministers would have to choose between a ministry or amairie. Darmanin said today that he has the g...
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But when riots broke out across the country after the recent police shooting, Clichy-sous-Bois was hit hard again… A 2018 parliamentary report noted that the successive governments’ efforts to improve life in the suburbs had mostly failed, in part because they did not focus enough on helping...
See also: 2023 France riotsWeapons delivered to Ukraine by NATO and the West ended up in the hands of protesters and were used against police. The foreign arms provided to nationalists, Nazis and fascists on Ukrainian territory backfired and not only ended up in Western donor countries, but...
During the riots that erupted in the banlieues in 2005, the Bondy Blog was set up by a group of Swiss journalists who were interested in hearing what the inhabitants of Bondy, one of the burning suburbs northeast of Paris, might have to say about their situation. Today the Bondy Blog is...
Riots have broken out all over France in recent days. Here’s all you need to know about how the situation might affect summer travel.
Yet elites do rather well out of the system, which makes it easier to send wealth abroad. And a weaker currency would increase the cost of imported goods. The only devaluation, in 1994, sparked riots. Share this: Facebook Twitter
There are intriguing similarities — but crucial differences, too. Like today, the international situation in 1936 was alarming: Nazi Germany was on the rise, and the Spanish civil war confronted the Popular Front with agonisingly difficult choices. But unlike in 1936, today’s left isnot united...