REPORTAGE – 107 nationalities, 25% unemployed, more than 50% social housing… La 3e commune of Oise is now led by the rebel Omar Yaqoob. After threats and intimidation during the campaign, residents fear an increase in tensions.
At the checkout, a pile of Faith and Islam neighbor with Islamic Ethics. But what are these religious books doing in a ladies’ boutique in downtown Creil? “Associations regularly come to distribute them to us.”explains the manager. Before entrusting: “Here, it is better to show that we are good Muslims.” While this Sunday, the LFI Omar Yaqoob took over this multicultural city, a socialist bastion for more than a century, the trader, of Turkish origin, is wary: “He seems nice, but his team? s’inquiète-t-elle. We know that Pakistanis put religion above everything else. We prefer democracy…
With nearly 37,000 inhabitants, 107 nationalities, 25% unemployed, more than 50% social housing, Creil, the third largest municipality in the Oise, is among the poorest in France. “A very urban setting, with significant communitarianism, it’s really the perfect morphology for studying voting…
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