France — The last will and testament of Quentin Roy a good-looking 23-year-old from the Paris suburb of Sevran was written in neat blue biro on a piece of paper torn from a notebook He gave instructions for his Samsung tablet to be given to fellow fighters and listed mobile phone numbers for “Maman” and “Papa” so that his parents could be informed of his death via Whatsapp who sells advertising for health magazines received a photograph of her son’s will on January 14 The Islamic State member who sent it added that Quentin had blown himself up in Iraq an unloved town a 20-minute train ride from Gare du Nord has seen 15 of its young men depart for Iraq or Syria since 2014 who are in touch with families in the same situation When Quentin left Sevran in September 2014 his parents recalled that many young men from the local housing estates had sounded impressed “So he’s gone to look for a life,” was a common refrain the French word for “suburb” that has come to serve as shorthand for the poverty crime and failed integration that have blighted the edges of French cities for decades Cities minister Patrick Kanner estimates there are “a hundred” French neighborhoods that bear a resemblance to Molenbeek the Brussels district now globally infamous as a jihadist breeding ground The banlieue was once a leafy suburb | Isabella Ståhl for POLITICO It is a concentration of enormous poverty and unemployment,” Kanner told Europe 1 radio “It’s a system where public services have practically disappeared it’s a system where politicians have thrown in the towel.” The topic is especially sensitive since men from both Molenbeek and the Parisian banlieues coordinated attacks that killed 130 people in Paris last November French commentators have warned against assuming that if a neighborhood is poor The last thing Sevran’s residents want is for “jihad” to top the list of things for which their town is already notorious — crime Véronique and Thierry Roy accused Sevran’s mayor of failing to shut down a jihadist recruitment network “We are outraged by your inaction,” they wrote Sevran was a leafy village at the heart of France’s explosives industry and home to the national gunpowder factory the inventor of dynamite before his name took on more peaceful connotations Mayor of Sevran Stéphane Gatignon says the banlieues themselves “risk exploding.” The riots that engulfed suburbs nationwide in 2005 could easily repeat themselves he warned on the 10th anniversary of the uprising regularly refers to being “at war” | Isabella Ståhl for POLITICO While France’s economy is officially growing again followed by two other major factories in the 1990s The old industrial quarter is a ghost town He went on hunger strike in 2012 to demand more state funding for hard-up towns He has been hounded by the media over the Roy family’s letter and regularly refers to being “at war.” Sevran has indeed paid the price for radicalization in more ways than one: A member of Gatignon’s town hall staff was killed in the carnage at the Bataclan concert venue in November Gatignon says he has done everything he can to stop jihadist recruiters from operating in Sevran but that there are limits to what a mayor can do “The government has no idea what is happening on the ground,” he says “There is a total disconnect between what happens in offices in Paris and what happens in reality.” Many of the young Sevranais who left to wage jihad had frequented an informal prayer hall known locally as the “Daesh mosque.” Gatignon repeatedly asked the state to shut it down — he did not have the authority to do so himself — but says he was ignored The mayor has a raft of other problems to deal with Sevran’s public housing is overcrowded and school funding is scarce violence between drug gangs got so bad that Gatignon suggested U.N Forty percent of young adults are officially unemployed A photograph in his parents’ house shows Quentin playing soccer when he was younger | Isabella Ståhl for POLITICO The government recently placed Sevran on a list of 12 “priority neighborhoods” with particularly dire social problems and ordered officials to be brought in from Paris in April Sevran is home to more than 70 nationalities “It’s not like the Muslim community dominates everything,” says Gatignon The 15 young men who left Sevran to join the Islamic State came from a variety of family backgrounds: Algerian the post-war housing blocks synonymous with drugs and gang violence Their remaining son is a software engineer He converted in 2013 and made no attempt to hide it from his parents to have a conversation about it,” Thierry says over dinner at their home which is full of pictures of both of their sons Quentin’s views became increasingly extreme He quit his job at a sports store when they wouldn’t let him schedule his shifts around prayer He refused to join in family celebrations or attend his grandmother’s funeral because it was held in a church Quentin told his parents he was picking up a new car for his work as an Uber driver Quentin sent sporadic messages defending the holy fight The manager of Sevran’s Grand Mosque helped Véronique write a reply using quotations from the Koran to tell her son why he was wrong to think he should fight in Syria Loneliness and helplessness are the overwhelming emotions in the wake of their son’s death in Syria | Quentin Ståhl for POLITICO she says she has been let down by the authorities They say Gatignon has tried to shift the blame for things he should have fixed himself to publicize a helpline for parents worried that their kids have been radicalized “It’s a way of not sticking the town with the ‘radicalization’ label when we already have a drug problem.” Véronique and Thierry Roy are the only Sevran parents to have gone public about their son’s death as a jihadist “because they don’t want to get involved with the authorities and they don’t want to be judged by the community.” The couple receives regular messages from other Sevran families who have lost their children to ISIL They want to raise the alarm but avoid the public scrutiny the Roys have dealt with since their open letter to the mayor The young men who left Sevran departed between 2014 and the end of 2015 when the Islamic State appeared to be making massive inroads in its mission to create a caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq Instead of worshiping at the mainstream Grand Mosque of Sevran several of the boys began frequenting the informal prayer hall known as the Daesh mosque a mosque: It was a former shop rented out as a private prayer space by Muslims who felt that the town’s official mosque did not preach a strict enough version of Islam had known both Quentin and Ilyes since childhood | Isabella Ståhl for POLITICO Among the young men who worshipped there is a Sorbonne history graduate called Ilyes He has been in detention since November for “criminal association in relation to terrorist activity,” a charge he denies He is the one who accompanied Quentin Roy to the airport when he set off for jihad a law student at Nanterre University who has known both Quentin and Ilyes since childhood describes Ilyes as “someone who joked with everyone and smiled 24/7.” The pair shared a spirit of intellectual curiosity and would often linger after soccer matches “imagining a better world.” Ilyes had a clean criminal record and had previously held a job as a middle school supervisor he worried that his friend’s opinions had become increasingly extreme Members of Sevran’s mainstream Grand Mosque were the ones to first alert officials to radical preaching at the Daesh mosque two years ago an imposing man who manages the Grand Mosque’s administration and finances there was little he could do to stop the extremist preaching at the informal prayer hall across town “We can’t stop people meeting in a private setting,” he says when we hear people preaching hate and violence Muslims in banlieues like Sevran feel alienated by rising Islamophobia | Isabella Ståhl for POLITICO The shopfront of the Daesh mosque has now been bricked up but no one believes this puts a definitive end to radical preaching in Sevran “They work in the shadows,” El-Bekkay says of the preachers who frequented the makeshift mosque tomorrow it might be Aubervilliers or somewhere else.” no such thing as a French jihadist “profile.” Some are radicalized in prison including Bataclan attackers Omar Ismail Mostefai and Samy Amimour Many French citizens heading to Iraq and Syria have been women The renewed media attention has banlieue mayors like Sevran’s on the defensive and Lunel in southern France have also seen a trickle of young men leave to fight in Syria Authorities announced they had foiled another attack on France last month when police raided an apartment in Argenteuil the homemade explosive most often used by the Islamic State Mayor Georges Mothron angrily denied that he presides over a “French Molenbeek.” people from places like Sevran often talk of changing their name to something “more French” to get a job interview it does not come as a surprise that alienated French Muslims from the banlieues have headed to Syria He points to rising Islamophobia after the Paris attacks Forty percent of young adults are unemployed in Sevran a rate that surpasses Molenbeek’s | Isabella Ståhl for POLITICO “In a social crisis doubled by contempt for Muslims how can you get outraged by the idea that the youth of this country might be won over by the arguments of ISIL?” he says what future does a kid from the banlieues have in France are embroiled in a legal fight to stop plans to build a large mosque on their street Then there is their ongoing public battle with the mayor — and a struggle to pick up the pieces at home Claire Sergent is a freelance journalist working for Europe 1 and other media in France previously based at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London Katy Lee is a journalist with Agence France-Presse in Paris formerly reporting from London and Hong Kong If there’s one thing I’ve learned in 2024 about Star Wars thanks to the comics it’s how we might need more political/courtroom storylines For several months in Marvel’s Star Wars (Vol Lando Calrissian litigated his case for a stay of execution over his actions resulting in a surprisingly fun storyline I was initially skeptical with while in The High Republic Adventures #9 – Phase III Sevran Tarkin takes her new friends to Eriadu’s ruling council to make their case for unity against the Nihil but what Daniel José Older litigates along the way is an interesting look at the politicking of the era If there’s one thing myself and many other fans have levied against the overall High Republic initiative as we’ve not really spent time with the Republic Senate or dealt much with a world’s leaders/political system in most stories instead only a handful of political figures (including at least the Chancellor!) Older offers a glimpse of what’s likely happening across the galaxy in this era as Sevran and the group stumble into a moment where a case’s being made the Republic’s abandoned those in the Outer Rim like Eriadu now the Stormwall has fallen over them Jedi Knight Farzala gets to make a case for the Republic and the Jedi but a ‘representative’ of the Nihil is invited in as well making the case for siding with the Nihil to help rid one of their cities of criminals Be it the Nihil’s argument of cooperation or Sevran’s uncle Tragkul leveraging ‘tragedy,’ both are a prescient look at how ruling by fear and fanning its flames won’t ever solve any real problems and only leads to more down the line something younger readers of this series hopefully haven’t had to see or deal with but older readers will understand far too well it’s a somewhat compelling look at how the Nihil could make their presence in the Occlusion Zone an inviting one not taking over planets with force but with tact instead though the final page of the issue shows coexistence was never actually on the table which sort of takes away from the potential of a little more nuance to this storyline There’s some chaos energy worth feasting on from Lula Talisola and Zeen Mrala this issue and really gives a hint at how free the two feel now they have each other and have proposed to one another Zeen is eager to hit some dancing clubs with Lula while her usual inability to keep her cool comes at odds with trying to follow the decorum in the Seswenna City Hall meeting though at least she’s got Sevran’s back in the face of her uncle who ends up having to stay outside of the meeting because only so many representatives can be allowed in her time with Qort and Jedi Master Emerick Cahptor who has mainly been cameoing in Phase III so far but starred center stage in Older’s Trial of Shadows miniseries Emerick didn’t know about Lula’s decision to leave the Order but Lula’s continued teasing about Sian Holt being Emerick’s girlfriend she was his co-investigator in Trial and has been guesting on stage with Zeen in bar’s band especially with Lula’s comment about having her mind wiped and his eventual almost confirmation of it when they work so seamlessly together It’s great to see Lula opening up to even more Jedi than who are typically in the series as she’s able to reconfirm her commitment to the choice and show the path before any and all Jedi is more wide-open than they initially thought I really do hope we’ll get more of Emerick and Sian in a starring role before Phase III is over but cameo/guest roles are certainly a plus in the meantime Returning to the series on art is Toni Bruno who had the main artist stint on THRA – Phase II and he joins Michael Atiyeh on colors and the lettering duo of Tyler Smith & Jimmy Betancourt here Tragkul’s one-upmanship of his niece Sevran comes across in a subtler way in the art as the panels where he checks in the Governor over Sevran’s citizenship status are slanted downward on an angle and Sevran is in the middle of the much smaller panel on the right who has been sneaking around in a hooded cloak as he has to look up and backwards to see the figure which has appeared behind him The skin of the animals Tragkul killed that he wears as a headpiece looks silly and ridiculous which Atiyeh always seems to make sure really stands out in every panel he’s in all of which plays into his overcompensating personality There’s a sequence towards the end which was really fun: it begins where the Nihil who come to mess with Emerick and Qort outside the Hall leans down and puts his hand on Emerick’s shoulder Emerick’s stoic stance against such a large and intimidating Nihil like the one before him shows his level of confidence but the way the panels are placed and Smith & Betancourt pull you around Emerick’s line apologizing for the Nihil’s hand left me as curious as the Nihil was and then we’re swung up to a panel where a little SFX denotes a single precise shot hitting the Nihil’s hand (I was sort of expecting Emerick to just chop it off looking intimidating as all heck despite being outnumbered the amount of Nihil ships descending on Seswanna in the final page makes the work ahead of the Jedi and Republic feel immense while the ominous dusk lighting from Atiyeh over the scene give us the vibes the good quiet days for Eriadu are coming to an end DISCLOSURE: I received a copy of this book from the publisher at no charge in order to provide an early review this did not affect the overall review content Yet the director was taken aback by how exceptional the visit proved Of the 40 locals who made the 32km (20-mile) trip This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Forgotten in the banlieues” Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents A low-tech fix is delivering high-impact results George Simion will face Nicusor Dan, a mainstream candidate, in a run-off There are five luxuries it can no longer feasibly afford Friedrich Merz’s career is one of unforced errors and puzzling missteps Both Donald Trump and Ukraine’s diplomats will consider it a success Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker 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 Could the Olympics finally be held in a wave pool a suburb of Paris with a population of about 50,000 people has placed an official bid to host surfing when the 2024 games come to France two known surf destinations in Europe for the honor to host Olympic surf competition but there’s one unique characteristic about Sevran for surf fans worth noting: it’s 175 km from the ocean A letter proposing Sevran be considered as Olympic surfing’s host city said the new facility “will help spread the wealth generated and also the values conveyed by this global event” and make the suburb a destination President of the French Federation of surfing said “the artificial wave must be as close as possible to natural conditions preserving the uncertainty of waves in the natural environment,” supporting the already age-old argument that Olympic surfing would benefit from guaranteed waves Surfing is officially in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Para-surfing is following suit for 2024. While we’re all stoked on this, everyone is also wondering, where and how will the events go down? The WSL has long waiting periods but the Olympics is expected to be a different format with a smaller event window- Former Rip Curl General Manager of Operations and surf industry veteran Baptiste Caulonque has the answers we’ve been waiting for Caulonque has worked tirelessly over the last few years putting together the TERRE D’EAUX Project along with his business partners have entered into a partnership with Wavegarden using their Cove technology The goal is to create an inclusive European surfing hub for all use the venue to host the Olympic surfing games The site is located minutes from Paris’ center and also happens to be within earshot of the Charles-De-Gaulle airport Surfersvillage did an exclusive interview with Caulonque and talked about their decision regarding wave technology possibilities of different surf competition formats We’re going to hand it over to Surfersvillage this conversation is interesting and Caulonque poses some interesting ideas regarding possible land-locked champions to be discovered We heard you are using Wavegarden’s Cove technology Why did you decide on this design – and is there a place for beginners with the Cove design we will be using Wavegarden’s Cove technology It struck us as the best choice to meet our expectations which are to operate on a daily basis welcoming both beginners and experts surfers as well as organize events with elite athletes Sevran is minutes away for Paris and close to the Charles-De-Gaulle airport so our potential audience is large it is key that the selected equipment can deliver a high number of waves and for all levels We assume you got to test this technology at their secret location deep in the Basque Country of Spain – what is it like surfing the Cove The TERRE D’EAUX Project has the full support of the French Surfing Federation so it was easy for us to have many elite athletes to test and vet the COVE we brought along some surf instructors as well to ensure the COVE is relevant for teaching surfing We want surfing in Sevran to be inclusive starting with the local kids who have no clue as to what surfing is The variety and quantity of waves is awesome to a beach break wave on to a reef break wave in an instant is quite thrilling It offers so many possibilities for training for fun or even coming up with new ideas on competition formats and seeing the athletes getting tired because of the frequency was fun and so different from a regular ocean experience Who do you see using this pool once it opens to the public and how will they use it The TERRE D’EAUX Project is part of a huge remodeling initiative of the Paris area called REINVENTONS LA METROPOLE DU GRAND PARIS There is a new network of metro lines and stations in and around Paris planned for 2022 Sevran will be 15 minutes away from Paris and 20 minutes from La Défense Access will be super convenient for all – local people obviously as well as anyone from the huge Paris area and even further with Charles-De-Gaulle being just 10 minutes away TERRE D’EAUX will offer skateboarding and wakeboarding possibilities We are building a boardsports park with selected retail activities (incl food and beverage) that can meet all needs; training hanging around and hosting events including music Will we see kids who learn to surf in a pool and then go on to become Olympic champions Once surfing and para-surfing are scheduled for certain for 2024 Olympics in Paris there is a fair chance that TERRE D’EAUX will apply to host these events as the COVE offers world-class waves in great numbers AND Sevran is located at the very heart of the Olympic village Hosting the Olympics would be an amazing exposure for Sevran and TERRE D’EAUX The French Surfing Federation is adamant about scouting new surfers from the city of Sevran and around as potential elite athletes I don’t know if they could be ready by 2024 but possibly for the LA games in 2028 what will this project mean to the surrounding area in Paris Bringing Surfing to Paris is made possible because it is part of a much larger project The City of Sevran was expecting an ambitious remodeling project to help upgrade parts of the City while keeping its youth excited and strongly committed to Sevran In addition to some 600+ new households and retail space CRESCENDO and LINKCITY (part of the BOUYGUES group) came up with the best ideas – high-quality construction at affordable prices a sound water management system that will clean up the polluted groundwater and low-consumption electricity setups we offered the most exciting water program with Surfing and Wakeboarding with the support of both French Federations It is thrilling to offer such premium projects in these parts of the Paris suburbs often pointed out for darker reasons 25% of the Sevran population is 14 years old or less please give us an opening date and just how big this project will be Our target is to operate starting mid-2022 We are working hard to be Europe’s best boardsports park offering world class surfing We were awarded not more than 6 weeks ago and we’ve had so many incoming calls from brands Is there anything else you’d like to add about this project Book your 2022 Summer weekends to visit us in Sevran Pingback: Kelly Slater Wave Co.'s Battle for the Olympics Isn't Over Yet; Here's Everything We Know | The Inertia You must be logged in to post a comment We’re a third of the way through 2025 and we’ve seen some exciting news in the surf park industry By Jess Ponting Academic Research Finds That Environmental Sustainability and Community Benefit are Both Achievable and Non-Negotiable for the European Surf Park Market Building a surf park requires collaboration across multiple teams and strong relationships with local leaders Press Release from Wavegarden: Located in the Basque Country the original Wavegarden Cove prototype has recently been transformed and extended to provide an increased.. 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All rights reserved. | Terms of use With its huge entrance gate, the Parc de la Poudrerie is a real eye-catcher - and there's more to come the site was far from being a green space as it is today: it was Napoleon III who built a poudrerie to meet the military needs of the French army far from residential areas to allow experimentation without endangering the population The engineer Gustave Maurouard designed the factory and supervised its construction the Sevran powder plant became the first in the world to use steam-powered machines the Poudrerie de Sevran remained in operation for a century until 1973: among the famous chemists who worked there was Alfred Nobel the Poudrerie proved to be a very useful factory that the imploder for France's first atomic bomb was developed The poudrerie eventually closed a few years later before becoming a museum surrounded by a huge park Since then, numerous species of animals and plants have been identified in the park, making it an area of significant interest for local biodiversity: between the large century-old trees, the meadows and the park's three ponds, the area is a delight for small animals, amphibians, ducks and numerous birds. But above all, Parc de la Poudrerie boasts an incredible wealth of history: from the Cartoucherie to the Pavillon Marouard the vestiges of the site's industrial past are listed as Historic Monuments Discover this Seine-Saint-Denis departmental park, for a stroll with family or friends, accessible with the Navigo pass (served by the RER in particular) 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 Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden school authorities on Friday summoned the four teachers in the video teachers and the regional education body told AFP Students and teachers in Seine-Saint-Denis one of France's poorest departments with a high immigrant population northeast of the capital have been on strike off and on since late February they are demanding more funds to better equip and staff their classrooms Pupils and several of their teachers at the Blaise-Cendrars high school last week brought attention to their plight with a Tiktok video that has reached 2.6 million views Of course we have a bucket for leaks because we don't have a ceiling," says one student at the school named after a Swiss-born novelist and poet The short video takes users on a quick tour of their dilapidated school from ill-equipped classrooms to a bathroom without soap interviewing some teaching staff along the way "I'm a French teacher at Blaise-Cendrars.. Of course when I was pregnant my students didn't have French lessons for six months," one says has a poverty rate almost double the national average and a large young population protests and strike action that lasted two months resulted in the creation of 3,000 jobs READ ALSO: French town tests controversial school uniforms France's President Emmanuel Macron in January announced several changes in the education system including testing school uniforms at dozens of schools -- a trial towards possibly making them compulsory nationwide in her penultimate year of high school at Blaise-Cendrars told AFP on Tuesday she wished the state would listen being abandoned by the government," she said whose idea it was to start the Tiktok campaign said finding replacement teachers should be a priority "It's not uniforms that are going to give us a great education," she said Please log in here to leave a comment and Jimmy Betancourt & Tyler Smith lettering Bruno does a great job with expressions and even in Tragkul’s limited close-ups he once again conveys the older Tarkin’s stubbornness which makes his later capitulation when Sevran arrives even more satisfying as his crumbling posture and submissive look are such a change of pace Atiyeh’s colors also offer a story to the Tarkin situation as Tragkul’s many initial scenes are him captured by a sunset as if to say change is coming regardless of being on the fence then when Navaj confronts him the sky is monochromatic blue but when Sevran ascends and kicks out the Jedi Smith & Betancourt also make sure this hits us as hard as it hits Lula and Zeen as Sevran’s shout of “…Tarkin family business!” is a bold red stretching the confines of the speech bubble and the body guards arranged in a defensive pose adding weight to her shout and the sudden change of tone The overall look of the veermoks allows Bruno to switch them easily from gentleness to fierceness as we see them being peaceful before Sevran disturbs them and later the anger and protectiveness when she rushes in for a kill Their design definitely reminded me of primates I’ve seen at zoos while it’s clear there’s strength in their broad shoulders and big muscles but as we see one cradle Sevran like a baby it’s not all for strength but for nurturing too The High Republic Adventures #10 – Phase III has fun with our expectations in the best way possible leaving us with plenty of questions for what will come next DISCLOSURE: I received a copy of this comic from the publisher at no charge in order to provide an early review The big wave is coming soon to Seine-Saint-Denis ! You dreamed of being able to surf one day next to Paris the Sevran city council and its partners Linkcity and Crescendo are currently building a gigantic leisure center in the 93 A new complex which will have the particularity to be equipped with an artificial beach with wave pool An excellent news for all the amateurs of surfing in Paris area While they have become accustomed to exile every weekend on the Atlantic coast they will be able to rush to the future surf spot in Ile-de-France The company WhiteWater has been chosen for the wave pool and will create up to 720 artificial waves per hour with an average sliding time of 26 seconds each wave will be able to be "ridden" by 70 surfers at the same time the managers of the pool will be able to console themselves by hosting the training sessions of the world's top surfers 09 May, 2023 By has broken through in a shaft at the Mare au Chanvre site completing its 5.3km drive for Line 16 of the Grand Paris Express Italian contractor Webuild and its local partner NGE recently celebrated the tunnelling milestone which took place in a shaft in northern Paris TBM Mireille broke through the wall of the shaft at the Mare au Chanvre work site in Sevran It is the first of two TBMs working on the section of the line – known as lot 2 – to complete its journey Mireille has now finished work on the first 5.3km of the tunnel, connecting Chelles with the municipality of Sevran approximately 83% of lot 2 is now complete and its parts will be removed from the shaft in preparation for the arrival of Houda which has excavated approximately 4km of a total of 5.8km Webuild and NGE are developing 11km of the 29km long Line 16 They are also building four of the 10 stations to be located along the line: Aulnay-sous-Bois Webuild is using fibre-reinforced concrete segments to line the walls of the tunnel reducing the amount of steel needed by half The entire line will serve the Paris department of Seine-Saint-Denis The trains running the line are expected to transport an estimated 200,000 passengers every day The Grand Paris Express will extend the French capital’s metro and light rail network by 200km with 68 stations to improve connections between the centre and the periphery Want to read more? Subscribe to GE’s enewsletters and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn Tagged with: Concrete elements that will form a 1.8km long immersed tunnel in the River Scheldt were recently floated in a dock ahead of their journey to Antwerp An Implenia and Hochtief JV has been appointed by Deutsche Bahn to deliver the eastern section of a new partly tunnelled railway line in Munich A second TBM has arrived at Green Park Way in west London marking the completion of its 8km long drive for HS2’s Northolt tunnel The first phase has been completed on Melbourne’s North East Link tunnels – the largest road project in the state of Victoria Sign in or Register a new account to join the discussion with exceptional openings of private gardens Why not take the opportunity to discover the botanical heritage of Seine-Saint-Denis This Île-de-France department has no shortage of surprising places to discover to the delight of families and local residents alike Whether you're a local or just curious to discover the lush green spaces that await us in the 93 department you'll find here a selection of ideas for outings on the Rendez-Vous aux Jardins 2025 program And don't forget to stay tuned for further information on this year's event in Seine-Saint-Denis: this article will be updated as we make announcements and discoveries