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Grenoble killings (part 2)

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The French interior calls it a massacre. The same working-class suburb of Grenoble that saw riots in 2010 is reeling from the brutal stabbing and bludgeoning death of two 21-year olds by a mob. After the law-and-order days of Nicolas Sarkozy, what is the answer of the ruling Socialists to violence and alienation in the French "banlieues"?

DEBATE
  • Laura SLIMANI. National Secretary for Europe, Socialist Party youth movement.
  • Charles GIVADINOVITCH. National Secretary, UMP ;
  • Tony KENNEYBREW. Attorney, member of the Paris Bar;
  • Salima BELHADJ. Producer, France 24;

Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Christopher Davis.

Watch the first part here.

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