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2009 French riots
LocationFirminy and Montreuil,  France
DateJuly 9, July 14, 2009–present (UTC+2)
Injured13 police officers
Perpetratorsyouths demonstrators
No. of participants
250+

A series of protest starts on July 2009 in France. On Bastille Day in the city of Montreuil, a suburb area of Paris, french youths set on fire 317 cars[1]. On July 9 many youths started a protest in Firminy near Saint-Étienne, after the death of a young man in police custody. More than 240 peoples had been arrested near Paris.[2]

Relates

The violence used to expel the people from the protest was completely not worth it.— said Dominique Voynet the mayor of Montreuil.

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