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"The police are really rough with them," she says. "If they're Arab or black, they constantly get stopped to have their ID card checked. It's no wonder they're fed up with it."
Many youths have never seen their parents work and couldn't hold down a job if they got one."

Those two statements complement and explain each other.
When a young adult "can't hold down a job if he had one", and being "fed up with it" is their only possible intellectual response, they are beyond hope.

I can't fix things for them; France can't fix things for them. They are doomed to a non-existence, so long as the country continues supporting them as pets. There is not much call anywhere in the world for professional rap-music listeners.

...Many youths have never seen their parents work ...Is a good summary of the problems, and not unique to France.

[From many - one.]

Excellent points.

I tire of reading about their run down low income areas with high unemployment.

If they were really broke, they'd be
scrounging, not rioting.

If they have no jobs they have all the time needed to neaten up the area.