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"A black person from the Paris banlieue - people were not used to seeing that. When you have something new you are shocked sometimes and don't know how to deal with it," says Bastareaud.

A local government policy of building high-quality football facilities in every Paris banlieue, partly to keep kids off the streets and out of trouble, has been fundamental to making the sport cheap and accessible to all.

Konate even returned to his old Paris banlieue to unveil his Liverpool shirt, external-link while a delirious crowd lit red flares and chanted his name.

Rose Ameziane, who is of Algerian heritage and also grew up in a banlieue, said that when police killed Merzouk last month, the anger made perfect sense.

“We’ve been excluded from society,” said Sofiane El Bekri, 27, a Paris-based, French-born creative director of Tunisian and Algerian descent who grew up in a banlieue of Lille in northern France.