Why the French are up in arms against the police
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.
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The author is a political scientist based at CERI-Sciences Po, Paris. Building upon two decades of research on political and criminal violence in Pakistan, he is currently conducting a visual ethnography of social struggles and their repression in France. He is the author of several books, including Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City (Hurst, 2014) and Gunpoint Capitalism: Enforcing Corporate Order in Karachi (Hurst, forthcoming).
