Radicalization, then, is not a mass phenomenon in the banlieues.
Rather, the term used is jeunes de banlieue, literally ‘youths from suburbs’.
But Phillippe Rio, the mayor of Grigny, is trying to shatter this image of banlieues as crime-wracked ghettos.
Many of the public housing complexes in the banlieues are neglected and physically deteriorating.
Radicalization, then, is not a mass phenomenon in the banlieues.
Adding the closest surroundings (banlieue) gives a total of 405,236.
The article which followed compared Zidane to a hooligan from the banlieue, the rough suburbs.