Although they never fail to take us aback, French riots have followed the same distinct pattern ever since protests broke out in the Eastern suburbs of Lyon in 1981, an episode known as the “summer of Minguettes”: a young person is killed or seriously injured by the police, triggering an outpouring of violence
Sometimes, as in the case of the 2005 riots and of today’s, it is every rough neighbourhood that flares up.
Numbering more than 100,000 people and prominently covered by the media, it was France’s first demonstration of its kind. First, the country’s urban policies miss their targets. Over the last 40 years, considerable efforts have been made to improve housing and facilities. However reluctant people may be to talk about France’s disadvantaged neighbourhoods, the social process at work here is indeed one of ghettoisation — i.e., a growing divide between neighbourhoods and their environment, a self-containment reinforced from within.
Whereas the often communist-led “banlieues rouges” benefited from the strong support of left-leaning political parties, trade unions and popular education movements, today’s banlieues hardly have any spokespeople.
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