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On the esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle, in Nanterre, hatred for the police is all over the walls. On June 27, a 17-year-old resident of this western suburb of Paris was shot dead by a police officer after being pulled over for a traffic stop.
Chronic tensions between the police and the residents of underprivileged French suburbs go a long way to explain the moral outrage sparked by Nahel Merzouk's death.