It is here, in the heart of the Pont-de-Pierre district in Bobigny, at the end of the 1950s, that Albert Uderzo and his friend René Goscinny created Asterix and Obélix, the heroes of their famous comic strip which has since become part of the cultural heritage French.
An anecdote that makes the inhabitants of this city of more than 500 homes built a few years earlier, located a stone's throw from the university campus, proud.
Although he was not yet born at the time, Christophe remembers the concerts given by Uncle David on the lawns at the bottom of the buildings, where the reggae singer lived as a teenager.
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A past that this local resident looks at with nostalgia, distraught to see the state of disrepair into which his city has sunk.
“Before, we were good here,” says this forty-year-old, president of the tenants’ association La Ruche en éveil.
Look at what has become, the state of the facades... There aren't even window frames anymore.
Everything is damaged, broken!
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