Paris, A Divided City: What does it mean to be French?

An investigation into the complex questions of identity and alienation in the under-privileged suburbs of Paris.

The high-profile case of the death in police custody of French teenager Adama Traore in 2016 sparked widespread protests across the whole of the greater Paris region.

The young black man was planning to celebrate his 24th birthday that evening but he never made it home. He was dead only a couple of hours after his arrest. A second autopsy confirmed that Adama died from suffocation.

News of Traore's death caused anger and despair in some underprivileged areas of the suburbs. Days of protests followed and some members of the local community clashed with police, setting cars and buildings alight.