A Red Star in the Sky of Paris’ ‘Banlieue’

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The street vendors and market stalls begin to pick up mid-afternoon on Saturday. On the streets smells of roast lamb and on the terraces they mix natives of the neighborhood, retired workers and third-generation immigrants, with groups of hipster-looking youths with expensive clothes and IPA beers. Saint-Ouen is the first border between that Haussmannian Paris, already inaccessible for certain family budgets, and its famous banlieue, sadly known…