What the records say
- When
- 14 Jul 2009
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 45.39° N, 4.29° E
- Description
- Period of rioting in France
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2009 French riots
Period of rioting in France
A series of riots took place in July 2009 in France. On Bastille Day in the commune of Montreuil, an eastern suburb area of Paris, French youths set fire to 317 cars. Thirteen police officers were injured. On 9 July many youths started a protest in Firminy near Saint-Étienne, after the death of a young Algerian man, Mohamed Benmouna, in police custody. Benmouna's parents rejected the official account of suicide.
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