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“The sun beat down mercilessly. Heat radiated from the sidewalk. Most Parisians had taken advantage of their generous vacation allowances and headed somewhere cooler.
Of course Paris was always crowded with tourists, but there were never any that ventured to this downtrodden corner in the banlieu. Saint Denis had been one of the epicenters of the riots that had rocked France ten years ago. It teemed with poor immigrants from the former French colonies in North Africa, desperate in their sear...ch for peace, prosperity and the French way of life. Liberté, égalité, fraternité, the Republic’s founders had called it. Yet in this corner of the city, the dream seemed distant. Unemployment was over twenty percent. Massive, crumbling low-income housing projects constructed by the French government quarantined the poor, as if poverty were a contagious disease. Gangs flourished where the law had failed. Until the riots, all of France was happy to pretend that places like Saint Denis and Clichy-sous-Bois didn’t exist.MoreLess
Of course Paris was always crowded with tourists, but there were never any that ventured to this downtrodden corner in the banlieu. Saint Denis had been one of the epicenters of the riots that had rocked France ten years ago. It teemed with poor immigrants from the former French colonies in North Africa, desperate in their sear...ch for peace, prosperity and the French way of life. Liberté, égalité, fraternité, the Republic’s founders had called it. Yet in this corner of the city, the dream seemed distant. Unemployment was over twenty percent. Massive, crumbling low-income housing projects constructed by the French government quarantined the poor, as if poverty were a contagious disease. Gangs flourished where the law had failed. Until the riots, all of France was happy to pretend that places like Saint Denis and Clichy-sous-Bois didn’t exist.MoreLess
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