Sensitive, popular, priority… they are sometimes called quite simply “neighborhoods”, peripheral urban areas where inequalities are evident. An example with the Covid and this study by Public Health France: In the northern districts of Marseille, there were nearly a third fewer tests, and more hospitalizations than in the rest of the city; twice the risk of developing a very severe form of the disease and half the vaccination.
More than the initiatives that could improve the quality of life there, it is often violence that makes the talk of these disadvantaged neighborhoods. As in Sweden recently. Firearms circulate in numbers in the suburbs of Stockholm. Nineteen young people have already been killed in settling of scores against drug trafficking background. At the beginning of October 2021, the inhabitants of these neighborhoods demonstrated in front of the Swedish parliament – especially mothers. This is a report by Frédéric Faux.
Molenbeek Saint John, the name might ring a bell. This underprivileged municipality on the outskirts of Brussels served as a rear base for terrorists after the attacks in Brussels and Paris. This is where Salah Abdeslam, one of the actors in the November 13 attacks, grew up and was arrested. The municipality has since tried to get rid of this image, but the situation of the population there has not changed much, explain to us Laxmi Lota.
When it comes to traveling from one suburb to another without a car, the means are often reduced. This is the case in the Paris region, but obtaining a driving license costs around 1,500 euros there, which is not accessible to all households. However, the permit is also very useful for finding work. In Seine-Saint-Denis, an association helps residents and especially women to get behind the wheel. This is a report byAlice Rouja.
” In a word “ through Cecile Debarge: from petty crime to organized crime, the path often passes through abandoned neighborhoods. In Italy, an expression is regularly found in the press, depending on the arrests of clan leaders and mafia bosses, it is uomo d’onore, man of honor in French. However, what distinguishes uomo from onore is rarely its virtue but rather its talent for crime, especially in the mafia.
Do tourists make whales suffer ? Curious question asked by researchers in Iceland. Sea excursions to see cetaceans are one of the must-sees when you have the chance to visit the North Atlantic island. In 2019 before the pandemic, 364,000 people had tried the adventure. These researchers are therefore trying to determine the impact of tourist ships by analyzing hormones contained in the water droplets expelled by the animal … and called whale breath. Boarding a small sailboat in the north of the country, with our correspondent Jérémie Richard.
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