How are the cites of Paris doing these days? They were called "La Zone" in the early 2000s. Are they still prison blocs of immigrant criminals? Here's a quotation from an excellent 2002 article by Theodore Dalrymple:

"Among the third of the population of the cités that is of North African Muslim descent, there is an option that the French, and not only the French, fear. For imagine yourself a youth in Les Tarterets or Les Musiciens, intellectually alert but not well educated, believing yourself to be despised because of your origins by the larger society that you were born into, permanently condemned to unemployment by the system that contemptuously feeds and clothes you, and surrounded by a contemptible nihilistic culture of despair, violence, and crime. Is it not possible that you would seek a doctrine that would simultaneously explain your predicament, justify your wrath, point the way toward your revenge, and guarantee your salvation, especially if you were imprisoned? Would you not seek a worthwhile direction for the energy, hatred, and violence seething within you, a direction that would enable you to do evil in the name of ultimate good? It would require only a relatively few of like mind to cause havoc."

I wonder what Paris is like now, 21 years later.

The link to the article: https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/the-barbarians-at-the-gates-of-paris.html