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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: How the killing of a teenager exposed a fault-line through France
Description: France has entered a second week of unrest, after riots triggered by the police killing of a teenager of North African descent spread across the country.
Seventeen-year-old Nahel M, from the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, was shot dead in his car at point blank range by a policeman on June 27 - and France is reeling from his death. Cars have been set on fire and shops looted by rioters. Tens of thousands of police officers have had to be mobilised to restore order.
The killing has prompted a furious debate about police reform, race and...