His shooting was video-taped and broadcast by local TV stations. The outer suburbs are usually made up of high rise apartments which were hastily built in the sixties and seventies. Generally, they lack the indispensable amenities such as shopping centres, entertainment complexes, public transport, administrative offices and have very little to offer in the way of jobs, sports facilities or recreation areas. Mathieu Kassovitz 1995 film, La Haine , documents such a spontaneous uprising suggesting that all young people, whether Beur or not, are pushed to the point of exploding with hatred. Many voices are being heard saying that not only right wing nationalists, but also a large section of the media, have been guilty of simplification and sensationalism.
Anecdotal evidence can never give a full picture of a society.
Tolerance seems to be more and more in short supply but the new boundaries between individuals' samenesses and differences are constantly being redrawn. No doubt that given a chance to live, work and escape racist harassment, and being treated with respect, most Beurs would live quietly and happily with the rest of their fellow French residents. In December 1996 the Nouvel Observateur published a survey conducted among migrants and their children investigating their perception of how the French treat them. Tahar Ben Jelloun. My translation 6.