Summary and map of the 2005 French riots
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This Summary and map of the 2005 French riots is to clearly show the spread of the 2005 French riots.
Table[]
Table showing the riots of 2005 | |||
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Stage | Dates and sources | Location ville-départements |
Burnt vehicles and arrests |
Origins: the Zones HLM at risk | Since the 60s | Banlieue parisienne, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, ... | Regular vandalisms and disturbances. |
Beginning: deaths of 2 youths | evenings of 27 to 31/10/2005 | Clichy-sous-Bois, then Montfermeil (Seine-Saint-Denis) | ? |
--To finish-- | Evenings of /11/2005 | ||
Spread to l'Ile de France | Night of 1-2/10/2005 Tuesday-Wednesday |
Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne and Val-d’Oise. | 228 (153SSD/75 elsewhere) |
Night of 2-3/10/2005 [1] [2] Wednesday-Thursday |
location ? | 315IdF, 29 arrests [3]. | |
Night of 3-4/10/2005 Thursday-Friday |
Seine- Saint Denis, Seine-et-Marne, Val-d’Oise, Marseille, [and others ?] | 593 (519IdF/74P), 78 arrests [4]. | |
Spread to the countryside | night of 4-5/11/2005 Friday-Saturday |
Seine-et-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Suresnes, Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Hem, Mons-en-Barœul, Rouen, Dijon, Marseille, Strasbourg, Rennes, Nantes, Nice, and Toulouse, [5][6][7][8]. | "897 (656IdF/241P)" (Yves Bot, procureur général de Paris, Radio France) |
night of 5-6/11/2005 Saturday-Sunday |
ditto + ... | 1295v. (741IdF/554P), 312 arrests. | |
English version: 2005 Paris suburb riots | Version française: Émeutes de 2005 en banlieue parisienne |
Geographical[]
Areas affected in Île-de-France[]
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Areas affected (partial)
- Paris (3rd arrondissement)
- Seine-Saint-Denis: Aubervilliers, Épinay-sur-Seine, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
- Yvelines: Achères, Les Mureaux
- Seine-et-Marne: Meaux, Torcy
- Val-de-Marne: Champigny, Ormesson-sur-Marne
- Essonne: Corbeil-Essonnes, Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Brétigny-sur-Orge
- Hauts-de-Seine: Suresnes, Clamart
- Val-d'Oise: Villiers-le-Bel
Other French areas affected[]
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Spread of rioting and vehicular vandalism (chronological animation 3 Nov. - 5 Nov.)
- Aisne: Soissons
- Alpes-Maritimes: Drap, Nice, Saint-André, Cannes
- Bas-Rhin: Strasbourg
- Côte d'Or: Dijon
- Doubs: Montbéliard
- Eure: Évreux[9]
- Finistère: Brest, Quimper
- Gironde: Bègles, Blanquefort, Bordeaux, Lormont
- Haute-Garonne: Toulouse
- Haute-Marne: Saint-Dizier
- Haute-Normandie: Rouen
- Hautes-Pyrénées: Tarbes
- Haut-Rhin: Colmar, Illzach, Mulhouse
- Ille-et-Vilaine: Saint-Malo, Rennes
- Loir-et-Cher: Blois
- Loire-Atlantique: Nantes
- Loiret: Montargis, Orléans
- Mayenne: Laval
- Meurthe-et-Moselle: Nancy
- Moselle: Metz, Rombas, Thionville
- Nord: Dunkerque, Hem, Lille (Lille-Sud neighborhood), Mons-en-Baroeul, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Wattrelos
- Oise: Beauvais, Méru, Nogent-sur-Oise, Creil
- Pas-de-Calais: Calais, Arras
- Puy-de-Dôme: Clermont-Ferrand
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Pau
- Rhône : Lyon, Rillieux-la-Pape
- Sarthe: Le Mans
- Saône-et-Loire: Montceau-les-Mines, Chalon-sur-Saône
- Seine Maritime: Le Havre, Rouen
- Somme: Amiens
- Tarn-et-Garonne: Montauban
- Territoire de Belfort: Belfort
- Vaucluse: Avignon
Number of arrests and arson cases[]
date | vehicles burned | arrests | extent of riots | sources | |
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1. 28 October | Clichy-sous-Bois | ||||
2. 29 October | 29 | 14 | Clichy-sous-Bois | [10] | |
3. 30 October | 30 | 19 | Clichy-sous-Bois | [11] | |
4. 31 October | Clichy-sous-Bois, Montfermeil | ||||
5. 1 November | Seine-Saint-Denis | ||||
6. 2 November | 40 | Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne Val-d’Oise, Hauts-de-Seine | |||
7. 3 November | 315 | 29 | Île-de-France, Dijon, Rouen, Bouches-du-Rhône | [12] | |
8. 4 November | 596 | 78 | Île-de-France, Dijon, Rouen, Marseille | [13] [14] | |
9. 5 November | 897 | 253 | Île-de-France, Rouen, Dijon, Marseille, Évreux, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Hem, Strasbourg, Rennes, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Pau, Strasbourg, Rennes, Toulouse, Lille | [15] [16] [17] | |
10. 6 November | 1,295 | 193 | [18] [19] | ||
11. 7 November | 1,408 | 395 | [20] | ||
TOTAL | 4,551 | 948 |
Categories:
- Riots and civil disorder in France