Some say they will not go to the polls. Bondy, with 52,000 inhabitants, is part of what is known as the banlieue. At 12 kilometers (miles) northeast of Paris, here one is both very near and very ...

His latest, the Palme d'Or winner Dheepan, reveals an entire community disregarded; the Parisian banlieue. These suburban low-income housing projects are unique in a way that, in their ...

Banlieue 13 Heavy artillery, sheer physical dexterity and down-to-the-wire suspense mix well in "Banlieue 13," a message-based actioner that's fast, dumb fun. Although some local crix have ...

"Des conneries, des conneries et plus de conneries," says Gouneidi Traore, a twentysomething photographer and social worker, when asked about candidates' proposals to deal with France's troubled ...

He could learn a great deal from 32-year-old Ophélie Roque, who has taught children aged 11-17 in the banlieue that rings Paris for six years. Roque has no doubt that some of her students ...

Night of rage and clashes in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris, after the death of a 17-year-old - Naël M. - shot and killed by a bullet fired by a policeman. The episode took place ...

By the time the school came into view, one suburb had been fully replaced by another: the cité – a cluster of tall white blocks – seemed to be separated from the rest of the banlieue. The lycée was a ...