Paris suburb ‘Saint-Denis’ will be the center of the Olympic Games in Paris. Hell hole? Or California without a sea?

Anyone who wants to work as a civil servant receives a bonus of 12,000 euros. Gangs with names like ‘2008’ and ‘2006’ – their year of birth – are trying to kill each other. There are at least 267 ‘drug supermarkets’. And just last Wednesday, an 18-year-old student was clubbed to death and a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death just hours apart. Bienvenue and Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris and this summer’s center of the Olympic Games. Portrait of a “hellhole”.

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