The November 2015 attacks turned state surveillance onto banlieue Muslims.

Evidence

On November 13, 2015, the lights illuminating the Paris sky looked different. The view from Saint-Denis, Clichy-sous-Bois, and the string of other banlieues surrounding the city was also different. And after 9 p.m. on that evening, the state’s lights would shine on the Algerian and African and Muslim inhabitants brighter than they ever had before. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 747

Categorization

• SEED: Line for an essay on how spectacular urban attacks reshape quotidian state surveillance of a periphery population.