Queenie
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Banlieues boiling point: Riots spread across France after police shoot teen After two nights of rioting, battle lines are drawn over Tuesday's police shooting of Nahel, the 17-year-old driver who tried to flee the scene in Nanterre, west of Paris. One officer faces potential murder charges. The fact that he is even in custody is a rarity in France. Tensions over policing and France's unresolved issues with its banlieues, its working-class suburbs, are coming to the fore.