The rodéo was a technique of rioting that became popular in France beginning in 1981 that was often associated with youth of North African descent and the Les Minguettes area of Vénissieux, a Lyons suburb.
Over the summer of 1981, 250 cars were stolen and burned in government housing projects of Marseilles, Lyon, Roubaix, Nancy and Paris.[1] The riots consisted of stealing cars, driving them in tight circles and ultimately burning them.[2] Some reports indicate the cars were stolen from more prosperous areas and taken to depressed neighborhoods to be burned to lure police to those areas for street battles.[3]
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- ^ Dikec, Mustafa (2011). Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781444399301.
- ^ Stiftel, Bruce; Watson, Vanessa (2007). Dialogues in Urban And Regional Planning , Volume 2. Taylor & Francis. p. 110. ISBN 9780415402859.
- ^ Jenkins, Philip (2007). God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis. Oxford University Press. pp. 156. ISBN 9780195313956.
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