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The riots grew bigger. Schools and theaters were destroyed.. churches were burned to the ground; graffiti in red paint on a church in Marseilles declared: "Mohammed was the last prophet". Bank branches were ransacked and ATMs opened with chainsaws.
The reaction to Nahel Merzouk’s murder by the French state showcases its tactic of depoliticizing the suburban uprising and diverting attention away from state violence.
Following the French riots, Imraan Buccus asks why South Africans accept violent and even murderous policing without taking to the streets, and secondly, why, when the social crisis erupted into huge riots, was there no clear political message.