"Almost 2m living in France's angry ghettos"

From al-Guardian:

Almost 2 million French citizens are living in newly created urban ghettos in an environment characterised by anti-French feeling, racial hatred and the oppression of women, according to a French intelligence agency report leaked yesterday.

The report, parts of which were published in Le Monde, concluded that approximately 1.8 million people across France were living in places which were either "already ghettos or on the way to becoming them".

The study is set to reignite the debate over France's struggle to integrate its immigrant population and its inability to cope with rising unemployment, sexual inequality and growing fundamentalism in its urban sink estates...

...Most of the "sensitive suburbs" are run-down housing estates built by the French government between the 50s and 70s to house immigrant workers.

The intelligence body based its definition on a range of criteria encompassing high immigration levels, high levels of non-French speakers at school, the presence of anti-semitic and anti-western graffiti, growing numbers of inhabitants wearing religious or oriental dress, and a growth in Muslim religious institutions. They reported that more than 300 areas were already ghettoised. The report added that the wealthier inhabitants "usually of European descent" were moving out en masse...

See also the almost two year old article 'The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris'.

Previous coverage of Europe's immigration problems starts here.

Comments

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