twenty years after Zyed and Bouna, Clichy-sous-Bois remains a symbol of unkept promises

The mayor from Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) is a pragmatic man. Former Minister of the City from July 2022 to July 2023, re-elected by the municipal council two years ago, Olivier Klein (DVG) affirms that, when you run a city like his, “sometimes you have to be content with symbolic victories.”

In this case, the installation of a second automatic cash dispenser. Two ATMs in total in a town of 30,000 inhabitants, located about fifteen kilometers from Paris but at least an hour and ten minutes, with luck, by public transport. Another world.

A city that the regional court of accounts describes as follows: “Clichy-sous-Bois is a commune that is still landlocked, marked by the economic fragility of its population and engaged in a process of in-depth urban renovation. (…) It is the third poorest municipality in mainland France according to the Observatory of Inequalities, with a poverty rate of 42% (compared to 27.6% in Seine-Saint-Denis and 14.4% in mainland France). »