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The street market in Saint-Denis is only a few minutes from the Champs Elysees by metro, but it feels more like north Africa than a northern suburb of Paris. Not a million miles away - the multicultural Paris suburb of St-Denis Amid a crowd of shoppers, almost all of Arab or African origin, a man in a white robe collects money for a mosque in the nearby suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois - one of the immigrant areas where youths burned cars and battled police during unrest in 2005. Arab music blares from a music stall. Next to it, brightly patterned African fabrics hang from an awning. Many of the people here are French citizens but they feel shut out of the mainstream of French society. A major grievance during the riots three years ago was the discrimination young people of Arab and African origin said they faced in getting jobs.... [read full story]
