Pantin Preschool Offers Clues to Youth Anger Behind Paris Unrest

A preschool in Pantin is presented as the place to look for the roots of the youth rage that erupted across France, rather than the street itself. Plundered shops, a burning town hall tower and curfews left the country in shock, according to the Freitag report. The day after the devastation, residents in Paris and other cities helped clean looted stores and littered streets with buckets and brooms. The preceding 24 hours, the report states, will leave deeper marks than the "ACAB" tags on building walls. Beyond the high counts of arrests, injuries, thefts and burned-out cars, images broadcast for hours on news channels and social media feeds shocked audiences worldwide: masked young men attacking police and fire vehicles, and a town hall tower collapsing in flames. The article argues the anger does not begin on the street but much earlier, in a place politics has abandoned for years. It also points to Marine Le Pen as a beneficiary of the unrest. Full details appear in the current issue.