International audienceThis article looks back at the insurrectionary days of 30 and 31 December 2014 that precipitated the fall of Blaise Compaoré in Burkina Faso, through the material traces they left behind in the urban space. It aims at describing precisely street violence in connection with the ways it was handled politically, as well as by the police, questioning the morality that this violence conveys from the insurgents’ perspective and exploring the ways in which it is narrated, not only by its protagonists but also by the new authorities who emerged after the insurrection. This wandering among the ruins invites to analyse the popular representations of political and economic power through the prism of what has been broken; it also ...