The deep divide in France's society along racial lines has been exposed again after video footage of a police officer in a suburb of Paris shooting and killing a teen of North African descent. Many point to the country's official stance of a colorblind universality enabling systemic racism as a major factor.
Police asked people in popular tourist areas in Marseille and Bordeaux to leave the area Thursday night after fires were set alongside streets, and violent clashes erupted between police and protesters.
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