The 751 No-Go Zones of France

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by Daniel Pipes
Updated Jan 14, 2015    

They go by the euphemistic term Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones, with the even more antiseptic acronym ZUS, and there are 751 of them as of last count. What are they? Those places in France that the French state does not fully control. They range from two zones in the medieval town of Carcassonne to twelve in the heavily Muslim city of Marseilles, with hardly a town in France lacking in its ZUS.

The ZUS came into existence in late 1996 and according to a 2004 estimate, nearly 5 million people live in them.

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