What percentage of french muslims live in the ghettos in the suburbs of france?

Question

I've heard that in these suburbs gang violence and even gang rape are all common. What percentage of french muslims live in these areas? Are there any french muslims that live in the city in middle-class neighborhoods or even upper-class neighborhoods?

Answer 1

I have never read any serious studies about this subject...

Of course a lot of "poor" muslims live in the suburbs,...but don't trust all these stories about "ghettos" in France!

I live here, and there are absolutely no problems in my suburb, our relations (inter racial, and so...) are just fine !

Answer 2

With all due respect to Pascalou his statement is at odds with the facts.

Reported crime  has risen from 600,000 annually in 1959 to 4 million today, while the population has grown by less than 20 percent

In 2000, one crime was reported for every sixth inhabitant of Paris, and the rate has increased by at least 10 percent a year for the last five years.

The source of this crime is easy to identify. It is from the suburban areas inhabited by Muslims. This is hardly surprising given, among other things, that unemployment among young Muslims in France is almost 40%.

In these areas lawlessness is the rule and the French authorities have largely abandoned efforts to police them. They have created more than 800 "zones sensibles" in which police haver reduced their presence and turned the streets over to the gangs.

No wonder that 60% of prison inmates in France are of non-French descent.

The plain fact is that the situation regarding crime has changed strongly for the worse in France in the post-war period and the primary source of that distressing trend is the discontented Muslim community in the banlieues.

To answer your original question is difficult because the French government forbids statistics to be assembled or kept on the basis of relogion. Therefore there is no authoratative source from which an answer might be calculated.

I also would suggest that use of the word "ghetto" may be too strong.

But purely on the basis of personal observation and extrapolation from various sources I would be of the opinion that a majority of French Muslims, on the order of 65-70% live in neighborhoods in which there is a heavy concentration of Muslims.