![]() In this regard, this failure of the means of coercion reminds us of the ones that are often applied to banks and corporations that can easily buy their right to despise the law. The difference between the people characterized by Sarkozy as scum, and these illegal municipalities is that the first ones tend to go to jail when judged guilty of the crimes of which they are accused disobeying mayors, on the other hand, have to pay a fine, something that many seems to widely prefer rather than integrating a more important amount of socially precarious individuals and families as their constituents. Hence the question that gives its title to this article: “Who is the scum now?” For instance, Sarkozy’s city, Neuilly-sur-Seine - he was its mayor between 19 - counts less than 5% (1,435 out of 30,448) of social housing. On the contrary, the map shows no less than 149 municipalities that are not compliant with the law, including 60 that do not even reach a percentage of 10% (in red). Municipalities showed in green are compliant with this legislation, and those in bright green even includes more than 25% of social housing - the 95 cités showed on the map in white are, of course, almost exclusively in these municipalities. The map presented above shows the quasi-totality of Paris’s urban area and its municipalities, including the 20 arrondissements that compose Paris proper. Let’s thus keep this definition in mind while introducing a piece of legislation that directly addresses the social (and by extension, racial) segregation that spatially organizes Paris and its banlieues: the SRU Law (Solidarity and Urban Renewal), voted in December 2000, obliges each municipality counting more than 3,500 inhabitants (1,500 in the Paris region) - other exemptions include the impossibility for a municipality to build more on its land - to comply with the ratio of 20% of its total housing to be social housing. Although Sarkozy’s policies and speeches have been consistently relying on fundamentally racist and colonial principles - many of uf will remember the 2010 speech of Grenoble about immigration or the 2007 one in Dakar about “Africa, not having yet entered history” - we can give him the benefit of the doubt that his definition of scum ( racaille) consists in people despising the law and arrogantly disobeying it. These two events sparked the important revolts of the banlieues that were only responded with a state of emergency and more police control. a particularly aggressive branch of the police in the banlieues), chasing them illegitimately (see past article). ![]() The next day, Bouna Traoré and Zyed Benna, two teenagers from Clichy-sous-Bois, died of electrocution while they were trying to run away from the BAC (Brigade Anti-Criminalité, i.e. chief of the police), Nicolas Sarkozy, who will be elected President two years later, was visiting the banlieue of Argenteuil when he addressed a person at her window: “You’re tired of this scum, aren’t you? Well, we’re going to get rid of it for you!” ( see video). On October 26, 2005, recently re-nominated Minister of Interior Affairs (i.e. ![]() “ The Banlieue Archipelago,” “ Another Paris,” and “ 15-minute walk from a train station” maps) and, more generally, to the on-going series of articles about the Paris banlieues (updated map in 2017 at the end of this article). ![]() This article and map are in the continuity of the five others made in the past year (cf. If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! Map created for the purpose of this article / Download it here in high resolution (8 MB) / (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) ![]() Léopold Lambert – Paris on September 8, 2015 ![]()
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