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The French government on Sunday placed a ban on all non-official fireworks displays for the traditional Bastille Day celebrations on July 14, a reflection of the simmering tensions over the protests sparked by the killing of a teenager of North African descent by a police officer on June 27.
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France banned the "sale, carrying, transport and use of pyrotechnic articles" before Bastille Day and promised "to protect the French" after recent riots.