Syn-Pro by SISIS Cricket Groundcare Machinery Royal 94 will look to Priyan Uthayakumar with the bat and Tharoon Joseph with the ball Mitry have the likes of Mustafa Omer in the runs and Usman Khan in the wickets Cricket Betting Tips and Match Predictions* - PrePlay Top Batter (Runs Scored) - Mustafa Omer (Mitry), Priyan Uthayakumar (Royal 94) Top Bowler (Wickets taken) - Usman Khan (Mitry), Tharoon Joseph (Royal 94) Most Sixes – Mustafa Omer (Mitry), Priyan Uthayakumar (Royal 94) Player of the Match- Mustafa Omer (Mitry) Team Scores Batting first – Mitry 110+, Royal 94 90+ Ekota CC have Faruk Ahmed with the bat and ball Dhulipala Chowdary could be in the runs for Grigny Vipers whilst Thivain Menikbowe will aim to be in the wickets Top Batter (Runs Scored) - Faruk Ahmed (Ekota CC) Top Bowler (Wickets taken) - Faruk Ahmed (Ekota CC) Most Sixes – Faruk Ahmed (Ekota CC) Player of the Match- Dhulipala Chowdary (Grigny Vipers) Team Scores Batting first – Ekota CC 90+ Mukhtar Ali Ghulami will be in the runs for Paris Universite Club whilst Tabish Bhatti always shows up with the ball Top Batter (Runs Scored) - Mukhtar Ali Ghulami (Paris Universite Club) Top Bowler (Wickets taken) - Tabish Bhatti (Paris Universite Club) Most Sixes – Mukhtar Ali Ghulami (Paris Universite Club) Player of the Match- Mukhtar Ali Ghulami (Paris Universite Club) Team Scores Batting first – Paris Universite Club 110+ All-rounder Noman Amjad could lead Paris Zalmi in runs and wickets Top Batter (Runs Scored) - Faruk Ahmed (Ekota CC), Noman Amjad (Paris Zalmi) Top Bowler (Wickets taken) - Faruk Ahmed (Ekota CC), Noman Amjad (Paris Zalmi) Most Sixes – Faruk Ahmed (Ekota CC), Noman Amjad (Paris Zalmi) Player of the Match- Noman Amjad (Paris Zalmi) Team Scores Batting first – Ekota CC 90+, Paris Zalmi 100+ Paris Universite Club - Abdullah Anwari Top Batter (Runs Scored) - Mukhtar Ali Ghulami (Paris Universite Club), Dhulipala Chowdary (Grigny Vipers) Top Bowler (Wickets taken) - Tabish Bhatti (Paris Universite Club), Thivain Menikbowe (Grigny Vipers) Most Sixes – Mukhtar Ali Ghulami (Paris Universite Club), Dhulipala Chowdary (Grigny Vipers) Team Scores Batting first – Paris Universite Club 110+, Grigny Vipers 100+ Live Cricket Streaming ECS France, 2025: The live cricket streaming page which enables you to watch live cricket - Geo-restrictions apply *NB these predictions may be changed nearer the start of the match once the final starting teams have been announced and we will be running ‘In-Play’ features directed by Ahmed Hamidi and Martin Fougerol was previewed at the Alpe d'Huez 2024 Festival and will be released in cinemas on August 14 This feature film follows the incredible adventure of Golo and Ritchie an atypical and endearing duo followed by over two million subscribers on social networks have won the hearts of audiences with their authenticity and complicity Their latest challenge: to cycle the distance between Marseille and Grigny an adventure that goes beyond mere travel to become a celebration of friendship and perseverance Golo and Ritchie tells the story of two inseparable friends who decide to take on an extraordinary challenge: to cycle the distance between Marseille and Grigny finds the sport a way of escaping and surpassing himself who has been filming their friendship for years captures every moment of this unique adventure The film explores the highs and lows of their journey This moving road trip is a true ode to friendship and resilience Golo and Ritchie appeals to a wide audience, from fans of inspiring documentaries to sports and human adventure enthusiasts The film stands out for its authentic portrayal of friendship and autism and for highlighting the protagonists' everyday challenges and triumphs Audiences who enjoyed films such as Intouchables Le Grand Bain or Hors Normes will be touched by this heartfelt and inspiring story Golo and Ritchie is a poignant cinematic adventure celebrating the power of friendship and human determination Directed by Ahmed Hamidi and Martin Fougerol the film was previewed at the 2024 Alpe d'Huez Film Festival before its official theatrical release on August 14 Don't miss this opportunity to discover a touching and hopeful true story that will resonate long after the credits roll August 2025 cinema releases: Films and times near youDiscover all the movies in theaters in August 2025 with showtimes near you. 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[Read more] Refer your establishment, click herePromote your event, click here This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The commune of Grigny, 30 minutes from Lyon, has been fighting a strange battle for the past 8 years. Because of two other French towns of the same name, located in Essonne and Pas-de-Calais, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes town has finally managed to obtain permission to change its name as of January 2025. It will then be known as Grigny-sur-Rhône Good news for the small commune of Grigny it officially obtained the signature of the decree allowing it to change its name as of next year This victory comes 8 years after the Town Hall’s first request “Our history was linked to the Rhône Thank you to all those involved in this development!” Xavier Odo enthused on Twitter So why was the town so keen to change its name justifies the choice by administrative reasons Because of the two other towns in France with the same name Grigny was regularly receiving letters (and even invoices) addressed to other towns with the same name The mayor points out that mistakes were made almost every other day It’s easy to see why it became imperative to rename In the vast neighbourhood of La Grande Borne in Grigny The mood has been charged with a deafening anger, on the verge of exploding and destroying everything, since 17-year-old Nahel M was killed by police on Tuesday morning Young people ready to confront the police are not afraid of anything We are not going to be shot like rabbits," Moussa Boys his age talk with great excitement about the bus set on fire the night before not far from the neighbourhood on the border with the town of Viry-Chatillon They filmed the scene with their mobile phones Some do not understand why we attack buses or schools My own mother begs me to stay home and not get into trouble Nahel M was killed by a gunshot to the chest during a roadside check by two police officers in Nanterre west of the capital, after refusing to comply with orders.  one of the officers drew his gun and fired at point-blank range when Nahel re-started his engine The officer has since been detained and charged with voluntary homicide.  The teenager's death has led to four consecutive nights of violence in France Hundreds of people have been arrested across the country according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin he hides a dark look that betrays a deep feeling of revolt He has not slept since he saw the video of Nahel being killed "It's as if he was hunting and killing an animal in cold blood," says Kylian the closest police station to La Grande Borne Relations have always been tense between the young people of the neighbourhood and the police while in the eyes of its residents it is a cesspool of poverty More than 15,000 people live in the estate sharing 3,685 public housing units built in the 1960s and 70s Originally designed to accommodate residents of Parisian slums the neighbourhood is now home to a large immigrant population living in very precarious social conditions with very high dropout and unemployment rates Grande Borne experienced violent riots following the death in Seine-Saint-Denis of two teenagers inside an electrical substation while they were trying to flee from the police It reverberates with their own reality and experiences they no longer count the number of facial checks by the police they have undergone an identity check in a shisha bar in La Grande Borne once again inflamed already high frustration Groups of young people burned cars in the parking lot of the Grigny shopping centre to protest against police brutality.  was in the cafe when the CRS riot police went in struggles at school and "has no motivation" he is scared because he always feels like he has something to be ashamed of." La Grande Borne is like an open-air prison where residents are condemned for offences of race and poverty "Everyone complains about the drug trade and the violence of young people in the neighbourhood considers them potential criminals," he says six young people from La Grande Borne were wrongly accused of attacking two police vehicles with Molotov cocktails After years of proceedings and incarceration a court has just cleared them and offered compensation a mother and resident of the neighbourhood "Some of them were just teenagers when they went to prison They have been robbed of a part of their life There is nothing waiting for them at La Grande Borne," she says I see children as young as 12 playing lookouts They monitor the arrival of the police for 10 euros [$11] that they will spend at McDonald's I am sad because I know they will one day end up in prison," Khadidja says When she arrived with her family in the neighbourhood 30 years ago "The only state agents we know of are the police," she says To open up La Grande Borne and other sensitive neighbourhoods public authorities set up an urban renewal programme in 2004 that involved building numerous facilities and the development of social diversity went to Grigny to see the achievements that had been made: a media centre He was still wandering the alleys of La Grande Borne when news of the boy's death began making the rounds in the media the tragedy shows that nothing is settled in housing estates Rio signed an appeal with other elected officials to request more resources believing that the city's policy for working-class neighbourhoods had "entered a critical phase and despair" nearly half of the inhabitants live below the poverty line This article was originally published on Middle East Eye's French website. Copyright © 2014 - 2025. Middle East Eye Only England and Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters Middle East Eye          ISSN 2634-2456                      The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden told regional news outlet Sud Ouest that 'Faux' (which means 'fake' or 'false' in English) randomly went missing when put into digital files or spreadsheets - after some IT programmes apparently read it as a command "It led to a lot of confusion and errors," Legal said explaining that some residents did not receive letters there is another French town called Faux-la-Montagne in the Creuse département and sometimes people called the town hall looking to reach the other 'Faux' municipality referencing the historic region name of south-west France famed for its production of duck and foie gras Faux is one of eight French municipalities which will change their names on January 1st according to a decree published in France's Journal Officiel this week This is not related to the updating of street names, which happened in June 2024, as that part of a law requiring small communes to allocate formal addresses to houses on the estimated 200,000 or so streets with no name The most common reason for a name change is to avoid confusion with other places of the same name The municipality of Saint-Christophe-sur-Dolaison in the Haute-Loire département will become Saint-Christophe-sur-Dolaizon as it was originally spelled with a Z instead of an S but it is also avoid confusion surrounding the spelling as the town is located near the Dolaizon river In the Seine-et-Marne département - Montcourt-Fromonville - will become Moncourt-Fromonville This is reportedly to fix the spelling so it matches what inhabitants commonly use (no 'T') Other towns wished to avoid being confused with similar sounding places the most prudent option seemed to be adding a geographical description to the town's name the town of Rousset in Hautes-Alpes will become Rousset-Serre-Ponçon to avoid confusion with the Rousset in Bouches-du-Rhône and to reference the nearby lake Then there's Grigny in the Rhône département which no longer wishes to be mixed up with the Grigny in Essonne This town will henceforth be known as Grigny-sur-Rhône told Le Parisien that they "regularly receive letters not meant for us (...) the goal is not meant to erase 55 years of Communist history in our town but rather to recall the 20 centuries of shared life between Grigny and the river" The Grigny in Essonne - greater Paris - is well-known as a leftist stronghold having been held by the Communist party since 1935 Grigny in the Rhône too used to be a Communist-controlled local authority but these days is controlled by the right-wing Les Républicains party The mayor had faced accusations of trying to erase the area's working class history and make his commune appear 'more bourgeois' with the name change As for the three other towns changing their names they will also add small descriptions to - Roche in the Loire département will become Roche-en-Forez Le Cheix in the Puy-de-Dôme département will become Le Cheix-sur-Morge and Le Vigan in the Lot département will become Le Vigan-en-Quercy Please log in here to leave a comment residents of the suburbs that erupted into violence in 2005 are still waiting for things to improve banlieues remain in crisisThis article is more than 9 years oldDespite years of emergency assistance “People here just want to be treated like normal citizens La Grande Borne, built as an architectural utopia in the early 1970s, is now one of the most notorious council estates in France: a byword for hardship and inequality where about half of the 13,000 residents live below the poverty line and one in two children leave school with no qualifications the lack of services – even the post office closed a year ago after repeated break-ins – the isolation of being hemmed in by motorways or the feeling of abandonment by the state that irks Achab and her neighbours the most but the “stigmatisation and discrimination” against people who live there When it emerged that Amédy Coulibaly, the man who killed a policewoman and four people in a kosher supermarket siege during January’s Charlie Hebdo attacks a spotlight was shone once again on the crisis engulfing French suburban estates saying his radicalisation had happened in prison But they fear it has triggered more prejudice against the place marginalised and jobless because of their address skin colour or their parents’ immigrant origins Nadira Achab: ‘There’s a feeling that nothing has really changed that the unrest could happen again.’ Photograph: Ed Alcock for the GuardianWhen Hollande travelled to a northern Paris estate this week to mark the 10th anniversary of the riots and boost local entrepreneurs claiming there were “no more forgotten neighbourhoods of the republic” he was booed and asked by one youth: “When are things ever going to change here?” The housing estates voted overwhelmingly for Hollande but the sense that nothing has changed has alienated many and cast a shadow over his term in office whose family has lived in La Grande Borne for three generations everyone worried that their cars would be torched,” she said the climate of fear and not being allowed to go outside.” Protesters clash with police during 2005 French riots GuardianEncouraged by her father the straight-A student is now at a top business school bucking the trend for local kids being pushed by middle school to abandon academic choices in favour of professional training schemes for subjects such as manual labour or administration Achab’s grandparents were Algerian but since then, her family has been French. “I’m French, my parents are French, we’ve been French for two generations, yet I’m still constantly being asked: ‘Are you French?’” she said. “It’s unfair. There’s a feeling that nothing has really changed, that the unrest could happen again.” Read moreMore than 4.4 million people live in the toughest parts of the banlieues classed as priority zones they face what Hollande has called “unbearable discrimination” a town of more than 27,000 people in Essonne Three in five children live below the poverty line unemployment – at 22% – is twice the national average rising to more than 40% among young people Almost 90% of the population live on two notorious estates: La Grande Borne where a large refurbishment project is under way where private slum landlords have been taken to court for housing people in fetid conditions most feel that building renovation alone – though much needed – will not solve the problems of unemployment education and the lack of a proper social mix on so-called ghetto estates His main hope was that today’s youth seemed less “nihilistic” than during the 2005 unrest Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré whose deaths sparked the 2005 riots grew up in a council flat on the notorious Grigny 2 estate and remembers the riots He ignored his school’s suggestion that he take a professional mechanic course went to a top Paris university and is currently an intern at an investment bank he co-founded the association Our Estate Has Talent “There hasn’t been real reform here. It doesn’t feel like much has changed in 10 years. The number of people leaving school without qualifications is shocking: a system of inequality is repeating itself,” he said. He pointed to a study this month by the Institut Montaigne which found a practising Muslim man was four times less likely to get a job interview in France than a Catholic “The results reveal a strong discrimination against Muslims and Jews in France,” the study concluded said she wanted to move for the sake of her children I spend €50 a month on spray but they keep coming back But it’s the general atmosphere that I don’t want my six-year-old to grow up in.” a handyman and political refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker women are striving to lift themselves out of precarious living through a food service steeped in solidarity 'Matres Mundi' serves as their blueprint for reclaiming dignity 'Matres Mundi' serves as their blueprint for reclaiming dignity 44% of residents live below the poverty line.  against a bleak backdrop of dilapidated tower blocks and crumbling concrete these women set up their makeshift stalls each day striving to make a living by selling what they can.  Primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa and living on just a few hundred euros a month these women offer home-cooked food to passersby cooked either in their own homes or on the spot.  a group of women have teamed up to launch a catering effort grounded in community and care these "Mamas" bear their families and communities on their shoulders shaped by weeks of immersion with the 'Mamas' serves as a homage to them By twisting the conventions of classic European painting which developed alongside the triangular trade and slavery that underpinned Western prosperity the project probes the complexities of social cohesion viewed through the lens of France's colonial history and its treatment of people from former colonies "Matres Mundi" - Grigny 2 #01 -2023 "Matres Mundi" - Koudedja - 2023 "Matres Mundi" - Grigny 2 #02 - 2023 "Matres Mundi" - Grigny 2 #03 - 2023 You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and Paris supermarket draw negative attention to city's suburbs Kosher store shooter Amedy Coulibaly grew up on rough estate in the "banlieue" (suburb) of Grigny Some residents of Paris's banlieues feel neglected by the French government '+n.escapeExpression("function"==typeof(o=null!=(o=r(e,"eyebrowText")||(null!=l?r(l,"eyebrowText"):l))?o:n.hooks.helperMissing)?o.call(null!=l?l:n.nullContext||{},{name:"eyebrowText",hash:{},data:t,loc:{start:{line:28,column:63},end:{line:28,column:78}}}):o)+" \n '+(null!=(o=c(e,"if").call(r,null!=l?c(l,"cta2PreText"):l,{name:"if",hash:{},fn:n.program(32,t,0),inverse:n.noop,data:t,loc:{start:{line:63,column:20},end:{line:63,column:61}}}))?o:"")+"\n"+(null!=(o=(c(e,"ifAll")||l&&c(l,"ifAll")||n.hooks.helperMissing).call(r,null!=l?c(l,"cta2Text"):l,null!=l?c(l,"cta2Link"):l,{name:"ifAll",hash:{},fn:n.program(34,t,0),inverse:n.noop,data:t,loc:{start:{line:64,column:20},end:{line:70,column:30}}}))?o:"")+" Dreux vs Grigny Vipers, Match 41, ECS France T10 - 08:30 There is a four place difference in the Points Table between these two teams Dreux are in 3rd place and Grigny Vipers in 7th Dreux have only played 5 matches and could go top of the Table by the end of the Tournament Mohammad Nisar and Ahmad Nabi are the top run getters and Wahid Abdul Usman Khan and Kamran Ahmadzai are the top wicket takers For Grigny Vipers,  Dhulipala Chowdary Thivain Menikbowe and Samiullah Mehri are the top run getters and Thivain Menikbowe Rahimgul Naseri and Samiullah Mehri are the top wicket takers Top Batter (Runs Scored) – Hamza Niaz - Dreux, Dhulipala Chowdary - Grigny Vipers Top Bowler (Wickets taken) – Wahid Abdul - Dreux, Thivain Menikbowe - Grigny Vipers Most Sixes – Hamza Niaz - Dreux, Dhulipala Chowdary - Grigny Vipers Player of the Match – Hamza Niaz - Dreux Team Scores Batting first – Dreux 130+ Mitry vs President XI, Match 42, ECS France T10 - 10:30 Mitry are 4th in the Points Table and President XI are in 2nd place.  Shah Pandikhail and Hussain Yasir are the top run getters and Muhammad Shafique Shahzad Umar and Arslan Noor are the top wicket takers Zain Ahmad and Jamshid Nasiri are the top run getters and Zaheer Zahiri Sajad Stanikzay and Hossain ikbal are the top wicket takers Top Batter (Runs Scored) – Lingeswaran Canessane - President XI, Arslan Zafar - Mitry Top Bowler (Wickets taken) – Zaheer Zahiri - President XI, Muhammad Shafique - Mitry Most Sixes – Lingeswaran Canessane - President XI, Arslan Zafar - Mitry Player of the Match – Zaheer Zahiri - President XI Team Scores Batting first – President XI 130+ Dreux vs Mitry, Match 43, ECS France T10 - 12:30 Mitry are 4th in the Points Table and Dreux are 3rd Top Batter (Runs Scored) – Mohammad Nisar - Dreux, Shah Pandikhail - Mitry Top Bowler (Wickets taken) – Usman Khan - Dreux, Muhammad Shafique - Mitry Most Sixes – Mohammad Nisar - Dreux, Shah Pandikhail - Mitry Player of the Match – Mohammad Nisar - Dreux Team Scores Batting first – Dreux 140+ President XI vs Grigny Vipers, Match 44, ECS France T10 - 14:30 President XI are in 2nd place in the Points Table and Grigny Vipers in 7th position Top Batter (Runs Scored) – Lingeswaran Canessane - President XI, Dhulipala Chowdary - Grigny Vipers Top Bowler (Wickets taken) – Sajad Stanikzay - President XI, Thivain Menikbowe - Grigny Vipers Most Sixes – Lingeswaran Canessane - President XI, Dhulipala Chowdary - Grigny Vipers Player of the Match – Lingeswaran Canessane - President XI Team Scores Batting first – President XI 140+, Grigny Vipers 130+ Paris Universite Club vs Mitry, Match 45, ECS France T10 - 16:30 Paris Universite are top and Club Mitry are 4th in the Points Table. For Mitry, Arslan Zafar, Shah Pandikhail and Hussain Yasir are the top run getters and Muhammad Shafique, Shahzad Umar and Arslan Noor are the top wicket takers. For Paris Universite Club, Zafar Iqbal, Tahseenullah Safi, Usman Shahid-I and Zika Ali are the top run getters and William Singh, Abdullah Anwari, Zafar Iqbal and Usman Shahid-I the top wicket takers. Paris Universite Club - Sher Afridi, Mukhtar Ali Ghulami, Usman Shahid, William Singh, Abdullah Anwari, Chetan Chauhan, Shabbir Haras, Kismatullah Surat, Manish Kapoor, Tahseenullah Safi, Zafar Iqbal, Waseem Bhatti (wk), Mirwais Dawlatzai, Sediqullah Shirzad, Shahzad Mansoor (wk), Zika Ali Mitry - Farhat Azeem, Muhammed Shafique, Ahmed Mumtaz, Muhammad Qasim, Arslan Noor, Abbas Khawar, Abuzar Hassan, Ahmed Bilal, Arslan Zafar (wk), Asim Ihsan, Hasnain Zafar, Khawar Abbas, Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Arslan, Shah Pandikhail, Shahzad Umar, Hussain Yasir             Who will win? – Paris Universite Club Top Batter (Runs Scored) –  Zafar Iqbal - Paris Universite Club, Shah Pandikhail - Mitry Top Bowler (Wickets taken) – William Singh - Paris Universite Club, Muhammad Shafique - Mitry Most Sixes – Zafar Iqbal - Paris Universite Club, Shah Pandikhail - Mitry Player of the Match – Zafar Iqbal - Paris Universite Club Team Scores Batting first – Paris Universite Club 140+, Mitry 130+ *NB these predictions may be changed nearer the start of the match once the final starting teams have been announced and we will be running ‘In-Play’ features, so stay tuned. n a gritty Paris suburb, Zineb, Danielle and even Benjamina, who is in his late 70s, say they only want one thing: to desperately get back to work. Like towns all over the world, residents of Grigny, about 30 kilometers south of the French capital, are struggling after losing jobs in the pandemic. But this downtrodden town, with its sprawling high-rise, low-cost housing estates, was already known as the poorest in mainland France. Nearly half its 30,000 residents, many of them immigrants, live below the poverty line, surviving on less than 900 euros (US$1,086) a month, according to the Observatoire des Inegalites, a non-governmental body that studies inequality in France. Grigny mayor Philippe Rio said he fears the percentage has only increased further since the virus outbreak, given the number of people signing up for state aid. Despite being aged 77, he used to do manual work which he said paid well. But he has been out of a job for nearly a year and now he and his wife scrape by on welfare payments. Once the monthly rent of 580 euros is paid, the couple is left with 300 euros to make ends meet until the end of the month. "That's nothing at all," Rajoharison told AFP. He hopes to find odd jobs to survive once all the Covid-19 related restrictions are lifted, he said. The couple lives on the 10th floor of a tower block in Grigny 2, one of Europe's biggest housing complexes and also one of the most run-down in France. Piles of rubbish are strewn at the entrance of some of the buildings whose doors are shattered. But Rajoharison's little studio flat is neat and tidy, and decorated with pictures of flowers. Rio, the mayor from France's Communist party, says that the pandemic has exacerbated poverty, especially in the housing estate, which he says has become a "ticking time bomb." "Between last March and December, the number of unpaid charges, including for water and heating, has practically doubled," he told AFP.  "And if we can't pay for the water and heating, that means we also can't pay for upkeep and emergency repairs." On a recent day, a few streets from the tower block, some 40 people waited in line for free meals and other goods distributed by the Restos du Coeur charity, which hands out food packages and hot meals to those in need. The association has seen a significant jump in the number of people seeking assistance because of what Rio describes as the "social tsunami" brought upon by the pandemic. Among those in the queue is Danielle, a 21-year-old from Ivory Coast in need of nappies and milk for her baby daughter. "Before coronavirus, my partner and I worked a bit but since the first wave of the pandemic, we haven't been able to find jobs," said Danielle, who is undocumented and previously earned money cleaning houses. Naima, 37, who is French-Moroccan and used to work under temporary employment contracts, says she has seen her living standards dip even further. "Everything has stopped because of Covid," she lamented. "It has impacted my personal life and I feel depressed. "Thankfully, we have income support" which guarantees a minimum income to those in need. Zineb, a Moroccan in her 30s who is also undocumented, dreads losing the social interaction she currently enjoys at the Resto du Coeur, once winter is over. "When I set foot in the Resto du Coeur, I forget my troubles and I feel strong and happy," said the mother, who lives with her two children in a tiny, stuffy hotel room with bunk beds, a sofa bed, a small desk and kitchen utensils and plates stored in the shower. Many people are reliant on food assistance for survival, even though the key challenge now is getting back to work and finding jobs, Rio said. "One year after the quake caused by the first lockdown, we now know that the crisis will be long-lasting," he said. France's economy shrank 8.3 percent in 2020, data released last month showed, as the virus plunged countries across Europe into their deepest recessions since World War II. Rio was among several mayors who wrote to President Emmanuel Macron last year pleading for assistance for his town. Since then, the government has pledged to allocate one percent of its recovery plan to suburbs like Grigny. © 2016 - 2025 PT. Bina Media Tenggara Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We appreciate your feedback. Quickly share this news with your network—keep everyone informed with just a single click! Customize your reading experience by adjusting the text size to small, medium, or large—find what’s most comfortable for you. GRIGNY, France — The housing project that was home to Amedy Coulibaly is a concrete labyrinth so scary that doctors refuse to make house calls and mail workers won't deliver parcels. Drug dealers and teenage thugs hold sway over the blighted neighborhood. Even the police venture only with caution into the Grande Borne, especially after dark. The project's maze of serpentine, run-down buildings housing 11,000 people gives gangs plenty of cover to mount ambushes against officers with pump-action shotguns and gasoline bombs. ''Our towns are not terrorist factories,'' Philippe Rio, the mayor who also grew up in the Grande Borne, insisted in an interview with The Associated Press. But it was here in what the mayor calls one of France's ''abandoned, difficult territories'' that Coulibaly started to veer off the rails as a teenager, graduating from petty crime to armed robberies that set him on a trajectory of multiple spells in prison. Behind bars, he met Cherif Kouachi, one of the Charlie Hebdo assassins, and others with whom he became radicalized. Built in the 1960s as affordable working-class housing, the Grande Borne now looks like a giant social and architectural mistake. Its lack of roads were intended to make it child-friendly but ended up making it difficult to police. The three, four and five-story blocks with fetid stairwells and dead-ends also make perfect crime hideouts and stashes for drugs. Poorly served by public transport and cut off by a motorway — as well as its turbulent reputation — the estate was one of the hotspots in a nationwide wave of riots in 2005 that exposed the deep wells of anger in France's depressed ''banlieues,'' the suburbs where France built grim projects to house workers from former colonies who provided muscle for France's postwar growth miracle. Their children and grandchildren now languish there — with, some say, few ways out. Monique Vareillaud, Coulibaly's primary school teacher when he was 8, remembers a kid ''just like all the others'' but also ''the little king'' of his large family — the only boy among nine sisters. In a school photo from the following year, Coulibaly is the only pupil leaning forward on his chair, chin resting pensively on the back of his hand, like Auguste Rodin's sculpture ''The Thinker.'' In his teens, the authority of school and parents began to lose grip on Coulibaly, and crime sank in its claws. His Islamic faith also ''was starting to take shape,'' said Grande Borne social worker De-Charles Claude Aka. Coulibaly became more dedicated than other neighborhood kids in attending daily prayers and, on a trip to Disneyland, kept himself apart from the girls, Aka recalled in an AP interview. Aka lost sight of Coulibaly in 1999. Then suddenly last year, his former charge reappeared in his office, seemingly with something important to say. Whatever it was, Aka failed to tease it out of him. He is now haunted by the idea that Coulibaly may already have been plotting last week's killing spree, and perhaps could have been reasoned with. Instead, they made small talk. ''To be honest, I kicked myself,'' Aka said. ''I started to run the film in my head of his visit. He had bulked up so much, become a big boy.'' By then, Coulibaly had done long spells of prison time, with six separate convictions for robbery, armed robbery and drug trafficking and another on terrorism-related charges. In 2000, when Coulibaly was 18, police shot and killed one of his teenage friends when they were stealing motorbikes together, neighborhood police say. In a later drama, his lawyer Damien Brossier recounted, Coulibaly's getaway car plunged off a bridge after he robbed a sports clothing store at gunpoint. Coulibaly coolly carried on as if nothing had happened. Brossier also defended Coulibaly after he and a friend drove more than 200 kilometers (120 miles) by motorbike to rob a bank and then two cafes. ''Quite a hothead,'' Brossier said in an AP interview. Brossier says it is wrong to automatically assume that other criminals like Coulibaly also will also graduate to Islamic terrorism. But, in defending them, he also sees how kids from the wrong side of the tracks in places like the Grande Borne copy older delinquents. Rather than survive on social welfare like their parents, they get lured by the easy money of drug dealing and crime. Often, the next stop is the huge Fleury-Merogis prison next to the Grande Borne where Coulibaly served time. Coulibaly surreptitiously filmed the prison's hellish conditions, which then were subsequently exposed in a TV documentary. ''The spiral starts progressively,'' Brossier said. ''There is a huge waste of potential in these cities.'' Coulibaly's former kickboxing coach in the Grande Borne, Rombo Togbahoun, fears there are more like him in the pipeline. ''Look at those kids out there with their hoodies,'' he said. ''We're only seeing the start of the problem. That was just the first Amedy Coulibaly. There are lots of little Coulibalys.'' Has much changed in the Grande Borne and other rotting projects since the government launched action plans for them after the 2005 riots? The Grande Borne now has a new cultural center and new gymnasium — which was quickly targeted in an arson attack last October — and is getting a tram link and other improvements. But 40 percent of residents aged 16-25 have no work. After being robbed four times in one year, the pharmacy shut down. There is just one full-time doctor. Residents and the mayor complain that potential employers turn people away because they are from the Grande Borne. ''The republic must ask itself real questions,'' Rio said. ''For us to feel part of the republic, to love the republic, the republic has to love us back.'' Racial discrimination also is an obstacle for France's minorities. The mayor, who is white, acknowledged that his skin color might be part of the reason why his trajectory from the same estate has been so different from that of the black Coulibaly, born in France to parents from Mali. Minorities have long complained that their names and color can hold them back in work and careers and attract greater police scrutiny and checks. This in a political context where the anti-immigration, extreme-right National Front party has made electoral headway, making some minority French citizens feel even more unwelcome. ''I went through the same school (as Coulibaly), which means we had the same teachers at one time,'' the mayor said. ''That fills me, and many people here of my age, with questions. ''I'm not called Mohammed or Mamadou,'' he said. ''I know that really is an extra difficulty.'' 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