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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Lorraine Mallinder

France: Police killing weighs in the banlieues before runoff vote

A tribute to Jean-Paul Benjamin, a father-of-two killed by a policeman on March 26 [Lorraine Mallinder/Al Jazeera]

Seine-Saint-Denis, France – April 24 will conclude France’s presidential election, pitting incumbent Emmanuel Macron against the far-right Marine Le Pen, but the political finale will not be a big moment in Beaudottes, part of the deprived banlieue, or suburb, of Sevran, northeast of Paris.

Home to high-rise buildings and a large number of French citizens with ancestry in the Middle East, the Maghreb and Africa, people shrug when asked about the runoff.

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