Sarcelles

Sarcelles is a city in France and the sub-prefecture of Sarcelles arrondissement in the department of Val -d'Oise with 58 398 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) on an area of 8.45 km ². It lies on the northern outskirts of Paris and has the oldest large housing estate of Ile- de -France.

Demographics

While its population was still in the 1950s, at about 8000, this rose to 1962 to about 35,000, surpassing the 50,000 in the late 1960s.

Sarcelles has since the 1960s, a large Jewish Sephardic community, many residents from Black and North Africa as well as from the French Caribbean, and also a significant community of Assyrians ( also called Syrians or Chaldeans ).

As one of the typical Parisian suburbs (French Banlieue ) with Großwohnsiedungen in prefab Sarcelles became a synonym for the isolation of the inhabitants of such anonymous and inhumane environments. The term Sarcellite referred to in French precisely this segment of the population.

Attractions

Church of Saint- Pierre -Saint -Paul from the 12th century.

Twinning

  • Hattersheim am Main, Germany, since 1987
  • Netanya, Israel

Famous people

  • Dominique Strauss- Kahn ( former director of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) ) was from 1995 to 1997 mayor of Sarcelles.
  • Maoua Sanogo ( born 1979 ), French - Ivorian football player
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