2023-07-06 20:25:54
In the Mas-du-Taureau district, in Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), June 29, 2023. BRUNO AMSELLEM / DIVERGENCE FOR “THE WORLD”
Several thousand teenagers and young adults, from working-class neighborhoods, mostly between the ages of 14 and 20, rocked the Republic by provoking the most serious urban riots ever known in modern France. After the balance sheet of the degradations, after a time of stupefaction, including for elected officials in office for more than twenty years, the questions are numerous to try to understand the roots, the springs and the reasons for a crisis at the same time security, social, political and educational.
The first observation, old, is that of the fracture
A few weeks before Nahel’s death, elected officials from all sides had launched yet another appeal for help. “The suburbs are on the verge of asphyxiation”they wrote in The world emphasizing poverty and “the situation of food distress” of part of the population due to inflation. The echo of their text had been almost nil. The ghettoization of the poorest neighborhoods has been known for twenty years, even if some sociologists and authorities have always refuted the term. “I see the lid popping because there are too many injustices accumulated for too many years”laments Youssef Badr, former spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice, magistrate in Bobigny. “There is still a feeling today in these neighborhoods, and probably a reality, that you don’t have as many chances as elsewhere, when you see your parents, your older brothers having trouble finding work”recognizes Olivier Klein, former mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), current Minister Delegate for Housing and the City.
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Elected officials are well aware that what is at stake is social diversity; they also measure that this policy is widely rejected by public opinion, by the mayors of neighboring towns and that each installation of HLM intended for the poorest is a political battle. “We are in 2023, we are making the same mistakes as in the 1960s when we built the large complexeslaments Ali Rabeh, mayor (Generation. s) of Trappes (Yvelines). We are certainly renovating with billions, but we continue to bring the poor together. » What confirms a prefect, long in the front line on these subjects: “We are paying for the concentration of poverty, the non-mixed education and the refusal to build social housing everywhere”. In the speeches of the government, the treatment of ghettoization resulted in the highlighting of the fight against religious separatism. Hence a form of double penalty: not only is this youth the first victim of ghettoization; and then it is to be accused of being responsible for it through religion.
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