Will France's banlieues wreck the World Cup? (opens in new tab)

As France gears up for the World Cup, the French police are preparing for more violence on the streets, whatever the results brought home by the French team. Les Bleus’ first game, which takes place in New York tonight, is against Senegal: a particularly piquant tie. Senegal is a former French colony, and Senegalese immigrants to France also make up the largest number of sub-Saharan Africans in France. Most of them live in the banlieues, the wretched suburbs of the Ile-de-France region of whi...