Thousands joined October 29 action in Paris to protest the deaths two days earlier of two African youth who were electrocuted while being chased by cops. Some demonstrators wore T-shirts reading “Dead for no reason” in French. Protests by African immigrants in six working-class suburbs have mounted for days. “Young people don’t just throw themselves into an electrical current,” Adel Benna, whose brother Ziad had been killed, told reporters, “I hate the police. They are responsible for my brother’s death.” The cops inflamed anger when they threw tear gas canisters into a local mosque during the clashes they had provoked.
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