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The heat rises in France’s banlieues - Telegraph
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There are signs of regeneration in Clichy[-sous-Bois] - in the form of some new playgrounds and street furniture. But the housing stock remains ghastly, mostly rundown post-war tower blocks, often overcrowded and with permanently broken lifts. Tuberculosis and lead poisoning aren’t uncommon. And tenants without the right paperwork pay double-rent, Ribeaucourt tells me, or landlords report them to the police.

Since 2005, surveillance cameras have been installed right across Clichy and are now almost as ubiquitous as “F—k the Police” graffiti. Ominously, the district’s new police station, built after the riots, is surrounded by a 12-foot high solid steel wall, topped with metal grids to repel Molotov cocktails and other types of firebombs.

Avec un lien direct fait avec la pression européo-germanique pour faire baisser les déficits publics.

For months, Berlin has been urging Paris to rein in its still vast fiscal deficit, amid fears that policy excesses could spark a disastrous systemic collapse of the eurozone. Tensions are now coming to a head. On Friday, Germany’s European Commissioner questioned Hollande’s “willingness to act”, openly deriding French efforts at fiscal retrenchment after a succession of missed deficit targets.