Following major student protests in spring 2006, which followed civil unrest in autumn 2005 after the death of two young boys in Clichy-sous-Bois, one of the poorest communes in Paris' suburbs, Chirac retracted the proposed First Employment Contract (CPE) by "promulgating without applying it", an unheard-of – and, some claim, illegal – move intended to appease the protesters while giving the appearance of not making a "volte-face" regarding the contract, and therefore to continue his support for his Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.