Shedding light on the June–July 2023 French riots, triggered by a police shooting of a French teenager of Algerian descent, this essay nuances the consensus journalism that saw in the violence a “George Floyd moment” of righteous rage against French institutional racism, a colonialist mindset, and poor policing practices. A challenge for France remains uncontrolled immigration and a French Islam incompatible with laïcité, the constitutional principle of secularism.

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French Riots for Dummies by Hoover Institution

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