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Malik Oussekine (16 October 1964 – 6 December 1986) was a French student of Algerian origin. He had been walking near student protests in Paris opposing university reforms (the so-called " Devaquet bill [fr]," named after politician Alain Devaquet) and proposed immigration restrictions.
May 11, 2022 · In 1986, Paris student Malik Oussekine died after being clubbed by police batons. It was a horrendous incident that is now the subject of a new Disney+ miniseries, writes Kaleem Aftab.
May 6, 2022 · A young Franco-Algerian man, Malik Oussekine, is out on the streets, uninterested in the chaos unfolding around him. He has just seen Nina Simone perform live and is still too entranced to...
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Oussekine's name has continued to reverberate among minorities and his tragic story inspired Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 crime drama "La Haine". But Oussekine's story had never been the subject of a full length dramatisation until now. Two versions are being released this month: a film "Nos Frangins" (Our Brothers), premieres at the Cannes Film Festiv...
"He was attacked because of the colour of his skin. He is France's Arab George Floyd," historian Pascal Blanchard told AFP, referring to the African-American whose death at the hands of police in 2020sparked massive international protests. He said much of French society had allowed Oussekine's story to be brushed under the carpet as with so much of...
France is still wrestling with the trauma of its colonial period, particularly the bloody war of independence in Algeria from 1954 to 1962. Among its darkest moments was the massacre of up to 200 Algerian protesters by police in Paris on October 17, 1961 – many of them shot dead and their bodies thrown into the Seine. The events of that day went of...
Director Chevrollier, who grew up in a small village in the Loire Valley, says he only became fully aware of the power of Oussekine's name when he moved to Paris and began to hang out with people from different backgrounds. He first heard the name in the rap song "L'Etat Assasin"by the band Assassin. "I hope the series will help ease the tensions t...
L'affaire Malik Oussekine est la conséquence de violence policière française ayant provoqué la mort de Malik Oussekine, dans la nuit du 5 au 6 décembre 1986 à Paris, dans le cadre de contestations étudiantes contre le projet de réforme universitaire Devaquet.
Dec 9, 2022 · Filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb takes a look back at the deaths of Malik Oussekine and Abdel Benyahia at the hands of police officers, during the mass student protests of 1986.
May 8, 2012 · Before M’Bowole, another famous case, that of Malik Oussekine, in 1986, had had particular resonance for him, and it is referred to in the opening montage. The narrative spring of La haine is the shooting of a young beur (a second-generation North African) by the police during the riots that open the film.
