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Will the 2024 Olympics change image of Paris region’s troubled Seine-Saint-Denis?

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Seine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris, hosts four of the Games' big venues, the athletes' village and other key Olympic sites. Less than 500 metres separate the Stade de France -- the sparkling centrepiece of the Paris Olympics -- and the crumbling Francs-Moisins estate plagued by poverty and crime. A third of its 1.6 million people lives below the poverty line. France hopes to use the Olympics to turbo-charge ongoing redevelopment there.

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Will the 2024 Olympics change image of Paris region’s troubled Seine-Saint-Denis?

Less than 500 metres separate the Stade de France -- the sparkling centrepiece of the Paris Olympics -- and the crumbling Francs-Moisins estate plagued by poverty and crime.

1 month ago·France

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