François Pupponi
Who was the chair of Sarcelles from Jun 1997 to Jun 1998?
Sarcelles Sarcelles ( ) is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris , France . It is located from the centre of Paris . Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-dOise department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Sarcelles . In the south of the commune , during the 1950s and 1960s , HLMs were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs ( French settlers from Algeria ) and Jews , who left Algeria due to the Algerian War of Independence . A few Jews from Egypt settled there after the Suez crisis , and Jews from Tunisia and Morocco settled in Sarcelles after unrest and riots against Jews due to the Six-Day War and to the Yom Kippur War . Transport . Sarcelles is served by Garges – Sarcelles station on Paris RER line D . It is also served by Sarcelles – Saint-Brice station on the Transilien Paris – Nord suburban rail line . This station , although administratively located on the territory of the neighbouring commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt , lies in fact very near the town centre of Sarcelles . Population . the commune has about 40,000 residents from 40 backgrounds . Immigration . A substantial number of inhabitants of the town are pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa who immigrated to France in the 1960s . Sarcelles is also home to a vibrant Jewish community and the largest concentration of Assyrians in France . Rahsaan Maxwell , author of Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France : Integration Trade-Offs , stated that compared with other French communities , the ethnic minorities in Sarcelles have more influence , so therefore Sarcelles should not be considered representative of cities across metropolitan France . Residents believe that there is a Sarcelles identity , meaning any ethnic group can be a part of the city , and they believe it lowers levels of crime and violence . Compared with other parts of France , ethnic minorities in Sarcelles gained political power at a faster rate , with gains made in the 1980s instead of the 1990s and 2000s . Many politicians responded to minority demands sooner as many immigrants , especially Caribbeans and Sephardic Jews , had French citizenship . François Pupponi , the mayor in the 2000s dedicated monuments commemorating the histories of ethnic groups , authorised funding of organisations supporting specific ethnic groups such as running Arabic and Hindi language classes and permitted the use of public facilities for religious events . Pupponi argued that this style is the best method of giving many ethnic groups one sense of community . Critics argued that funding groups catering to specific ethnic groups promotes segregation . Caribbeans . , 8.7% of the population was of Caribbean origin . , many of the ethnic Caribbean residents have French citizenship . By the 1970s , Afro-Caribbeans became more interested in changing politics . By the 1980s , Guy Guyoubli , a local activist , organised an almost all-Caribbean protest list . Maxwell wrote that this demonstrated that Caribbeans had serious intentions of participating in the political system , even though there were no representatives elected from the lists . At the time , ethnic minorities across Metropolitan France were increasingly trying to influence the political system . The citys first ever two Caribbean councillors were elected in 1989 . Around 1989 , Raymond Lamontagne , the mayor , opened Metropolitan Frances first ever Caribbean-orientated , council-funded community centre . Maghrebian Muslims . In the 1950s and 1960s , Maghrebians began to arrive in Sarcelles . Political organisation came in subsequent decades . Originally , the Muslims worshipped in converted makeshift areas , but , later , purpose-built mosques appeared . In the 1990s , Maghrebians were first elected to the commune council . Maxwell wrote that Maghrebians began obtaining key positions only in the vicinity of 2012 due to low turnout and weak community organisations . Assyrian and Chaldean . A memorial to Assyro-Chaldean victims of the 1915 Assyrian genocide was dedicated in 2005 . Part of the film The Last Assyrians features the Assyrian and Chaldean community . Sephardic Jews . Sarcelles gained a large population of Sephardic Jews as a consequence of the post-World War II Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries . , many of the Jewish residents have French citizenship . During the peak immigration of Sephardic Jews , they subscribed to a belief in assimilation and secularism and they had the North African belief of what Michel Wieviorka and Philippe Bataille , authors of The Lure of Anti-Semitism : Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France , describe as a structuring role that does not cover all aspects of social life . Beginning in the 1980s , religion became more public and important , and Wieviorka and Bataille stated that the previous North African practice is becoming mixed up with the neo-Orthodox practices of the young people for whom religion controls everything . In 1983 , there was a wave of councillors who were Sephardic Jews . Crime . In 2012 , Maxwell stated that petty crime and vandalism had become consistent issues and that violent confrontations between black migrants , Maghrebians and Jews was a recurring theme . He added that , by 2012 , the commune had developed a reputation as one of the more dangerous Paris suburbs . Maxwell wrote that local residents told him that the reputation was overblown . Maxwell wrote that , during the 2005 French riots , a report concluded that the damage to buildings in Sarcelles was relatively moderate and that a later report concluded that , compared with most cities , Sarcelles had fewer days of severe riots . He also stated that local residents characterised the damage as not as bad as elsewhere and not as bad as one might have expected given Sarcelless economic and ethnic profile . International relations . Twin towns – sister cities . Sarcelles is twinned with : - Netanya , Israel , since 1988 - Hattersheim , Germany , since 1987 Co-operation agreement . - Martakert , Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , since 2015 Education . The commune has 19 public écoles maternelles ( pre-schools/nurseries ) , 21 public écoles primaires ( primary schools ) , six public collèges ( junior high schools ) , two public lycées ( senior high schools/sixth-form colleges ) , and two other educational institutions . - Collèges : Chantereine , Anatole-France , Évariste-Galois , Jean-Lurçat , Victor Hugo , and Voltaire - Lycées : Lycée Polyvalent de La Tourelle and Lycée Polyvalent J.J . Rousseau - Others : I.U.T ( Institut universitaire de technologie ) , C.I.O ( Centre dinformation et dorientation ) The Bibliothèque intercommunale Anna Langfus is located in Sarcelles . This library has over 60,000 items and is divided between an adults section and a childrens section . In addition the Espace Musique Mel Bonis is in Sarcelles . Notable people . - Les Twins , New Style dancers - Jonathan Assous , footballer - Damien Cely , diver - Sarah Cysique , judoka - Mohamed Dia , fashion designer - Didier Domi , footballer - Andy Faustin , footballer - Dimitri Foulquier , footballer - Eric Sabin , footballer - Younousse Sankhare , footballer - Jean-Manuel Thetis , footballer - Frederic Thomas , footballer - Jonathan Tokple , footballer - Steeve Yago , footballer - Riyad Mahrez , footballer - Wissam Ben Yedder , footballer - Amir Haddad , singer - Miss Dominique , singer - Dominique Strauss-Kahn , former mayor of Sarcelles