The Left knows where the votes are, ideology be damned. That is the story in la Seine Saint-Denis, and as it goes, so goes Europe.
A few weeks ago, before the Champions League final at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, football champion Thierry Henry shocked the public by saying that “Saint-Denis is not Paris”, before adding: “Believe me, not you would like to be in Saint-Denis, it’s not the same as Paris. . . “.
Yet, there was a time when half the population of Seine-Saint-Denis was Breton. It was a great immigration, coming from the peninsula which has its center in Rennes, a region of oak forests and stone huts topped by long chimneys. This is the France that is disappearing.
Today the Bretons represent only 11 percent of the population of Saint-Denis and are “in danger of extinction” for demographic reasons, while Saint-Denis has been changed by another immigration: extra-European.
