The van, filled with gleeful kids, speeds down the highway, flanked by motorcycles popping triumphant wheelies and bystanders cheering in solidarity. Within seconds, with just Molotov cocktails and fireworks and sheer brazenness, they’ve overwhelmed the police, seized a lockerful of guns, commandeered a van, and turned the station into a hellscape of smoke and fire. The crowd starts to flee, and into the station stream dozens and dozens of more youths, their faces covered. Without cutting, the camera drifts into the crowd and lands on the watchful, intense eyes of a young man (whom we will soon learn is Abdel’s other brother Karim, played by Sami Slimane), who lights a Molotov cocktail and tosses it at the doors. Composed yet forlorn, he demands the names of the perpetrators, and asks for calm. A soldier named Abdel (Dali Benssalah) stands before a crowd gathered outside a police station and announces the death of his 13-year-old brother Idir at the hands of the cops.
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