Algerian journalist Maher Mezahi writes about the riots that swept through France.
In our series of letters from African journalists, France-based Maher Mezahi writes how racism and Islamophobia lie behind the anger seen on the country's streets over the past week.
Evenings were characterised by a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse between police and rioters, set to the pulsating soundtrack of car sirens, helicopters and fireworks.The same carousel of police union spokespersons, law analysts and politicians repeatedly attempted to explain the who, what, and - most notably - why the riots were taking place.
There was the ever-present: "How have third- and fourth-generation French citizens of immigrant descent failed to integrate into French society?"That such questions have yet to be answered decades after they were first raised makes me question whether those asking them were sincerely searching for answers.
As a young, Algerian, Muslim man who grew up in Canada, my observation of day-to-day life in France over the past few months is that the water reeks of latent, banalised racism and Islamophobia.
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