Summary and map of the 2005 French riots

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
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 Wednesday-Thursday	location ?	315IdF, 29 arrests.
	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.
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, .	"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

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

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
• 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
1. 28 October			Clichy-sous-Bois
2. 29 October	29	14	Clichy-sous-Bois
3. 30 October	30	19	Clichy-sous-Bois
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
8. 4 November	596	78	Île-de-France, Dijon, Rouen, Marseille
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
10. 6 November	1,295	193
11. 7 November	1,408	395
TOTAL	4,551	948