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| Reuters |
In the down-at-heel Paris suburb of Bondy, where Kylian Mbappe grew up, some residents have looked to the 24-year-old France soccer star for guidance on how to react to a wave of rioting in their community and many others like it.
The violence was triggered by the fatal police shooting on June 27 of Nahel M., a teenager of North African descent, which caused fury among many youths in France's low-income, ethnically mixed and perennially marginalised suburbs.
While appeals for calm from politicians and law enforcement figures fell on deaf ears for night after night of rioting, some people felt that Mbappe's expressions of dismay over Nahel's shooting as well as his calls for calm had hit home.
