Public Pools in Southern France Become a Measure of Inequality
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/world/europe/public-pools-in-southern-france-become-a-measure-of-inequality.html
“You live in a tower, with drug dealers downstairs, with no public transport; the sea is far away, and so are pools and good schools,” said Samia Ghali, the mayor of Marseille’s eighth sector, which includes parts of the Quartiers Nords.
Of the five public pools in the Quartiers Nords, an area where 250,000 live, one operated about half the time, and the others closed frequently, often without notice.
For years, the young talents like Yanis Fatnassi on the Marseille Nord swimming team trained at the Piscine Nord, a sprawling six-lane pool in the Quartiers Nord. It was shut down for renovations in 2010, and has not reopened.