"Municipalities in the suburbs: communitarianism in power?"

2/21/2020, 9:38:51 PM

ANALYSIS - The facts are so serious that it is hard to believe: in Le Maire et les barbares (Albin Michel), Ève Szeftel, AFP journalist at the Bobigny office, judges that the mayor UDI, Stéphane de Paoli, with the support of his mentor deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, seized, then managed the city, pactising with criminals and religious.

This is the essay that Emmanuel Macron should have read before writing his speech on Islamist separatism. In Le Maire et les barbares (Albin Michel), Ève Szeftel, AFP journalist at the Bobigny office, judges that UDI mayor Stéphane de Paoli, with the support of his mentor, deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, Jean -Christophe Lagarde, seized, then managed the city, pactising with criminals and religious. The facts are so serious that one can hardly believe it. Lagarde announced that he would file a defamation complaint. Either way, Eve Szeftel's investigation seems very rigorous.

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According to the journalist, it all started in 2001 when Jean-Christophe Lagarde was elected mayor of Drancy then deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis in 2002 with only 22 votes in advance. To establish its roots in its legislative constituency, it must tip the town of Bobigny, a communist for a century. For this, he does not hesitate to address the thugs of the cities, in particular those