Why it is that Zidane's father still can't vote

They ask: "Zinedine Zidane is one of the most famous people in France. (He is a football player.) But isn't it strange that the father of such a person, who has been living in France for 40 years, is still not allowed to cast a vote in local elections?"
 
In other European countries, citizens who have lived there for only 6 months or one year are able to vote in local elections. But Zidane's father, who has remained an Algerian citizen, is not allowed this right in France.
 
Those asking why this is are undoubtedly correct. But people who don't know the real foundation of the problems in France should not even attempt to explain the violence that has broken out in the Paris suburbs.
 
We spoke to a taxi driver and told him where we wanted to go. He was an African immigrant to France. He spoke about the rioters:
 
Taxi driver says the rioters are simple criminals

"They don't like the official police, which is why the police have started to dress in civilian uniforms, which has started to have an effect on the incidents."
 
"Is it just the uniform they don't like?" we ask.
 
"No, they are all criminals. Car, motorcyle thieves, this is why they don't like the police. They won't even allow the police to enter the apartment complexes they control."

We ask the taxi driver whether he agrees with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's assessment that the recent headscarf ban in France sparked the riots. The driver says:
 
"No, it's nothing like that. Most of these guys are unemployed, they are thieves!"

No social or political demands made yet

Speaking with an Algerian friend of mine in the middle of the night in Paris, I ask him this question: "Do the leaders of your suburb area have any demands for the French government, like 'if you do this or that, we will stop these riots'?" My friend says "No, there are no social or political demands. They have not stated anything like this."
 
"Well, is there anyone from their ranks who will speak directly with the government, have any spokespeople emerged?"

"No one yet. And if there was, that person might have been arrested already."

The only thing that is known for certain is that they hate French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.
 
Police complain about press role
 
We go in and out of different suburban neighborhoods for hours. There is no one on the streets. There are no police. At the entrance to Aulnay Sous Bois, a police car stops our taxi. After we introduce ourselves, they tell us "The press should stop exaggerating these events." The police are trying to keep even accredited journalists away from the area. So where are the images that we are seeing in the media coming from? According to what we are hearing, the rioters are videotaping and photographing the events, and then selling them to journalists.