n he knows. he wants tourist $$$.
I for one will keep my memories of Paris when it was Paris. Never returning.
I remember my first extended stay in Paris; must have been around 1972 or 1974... I unwittingly toured the exclusively muslim quarter not too far from the Sorbonne for an entire day, with my camera --- and survived.
I would not do that today under any circumstances, even with a heavy escort by the Paris heavily armored Vans and armed Anti-terrorist Police, (whose acronym keeps changing.)
My month long holidays in what used to be my favorite foreign city became a thing of the past around 1994.