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The over 800-year-old Basilica of Saint-Denis in France was heavily vandalised this week, with vandals smashing stained glass windows and severely damaging the nearly 200-year-old organ. The destruction was discovered on Sunday morning by the basilica’s organist, who found that the engine of the organ had been damaged along with other parts of the massive instrument, designed between 1834 and 1841, Le Parisien reports. Saadia Tamelikecht, head of the departmental unit of architecture and heritage of the heavily migrant-populated Seine-Saint-Denis suburbs, said the damage to the instrument, which has been recognised as a historic monument of significance in France, was...

Virginia HaleDecember 13, 2016 Women are invisible in public spaces and are unwelcome in cafés and bars in France’s migrant-heavy suburbs, a shocking report broadcast on France 2 last week revealed. Reporting from Saint-Denis, a commune where 36 per cent of residents were born overseas, journalist Caroline Sinz narrates: “The café terraces and the streets have something in common: women seem to have been erased. In some neighborhoods, men occupy public places and women suffer.” Footage taken with a hidden camera captured how patrons react when women entered a café in the area. Two activists are shown walking into the...

American media has been noticeably silent about the Molotov cocktail firebombing of a bus in Paris last week by a large gang which yelled ‘Allah Akbar.’ The attack happened just after midnight on July 28 in the Paris neighborhood of Saint-Denis. Video shows a roadblock stopping the bus in the street and then a group of young males proceeding to throw Molotov cocktails into the city bus. The bus bursts into flames and burns down into a metal hull. French publication Figaro reported that gang members told the bus driver and five passengers to get out of the bus before...

On July 28th, at 1:00 a.m. local time. a group of Muslim migrant teens attacked a bus on Danielle-Casanova Street, in the Saint-Denis district of Paris. The young men stopped the bus, threatened the driver, smashed the windows, and then threw a molotov cocktail at the bus, screaming “Allahu Akhbar”! The passengers escaped. …

he cradle of French history is becoming “Molenbeek-sur-Seine,” from the name of Brussels’ terror hub. Le Figaro newspaper decided to investigate Saint-Denis, the heart of Islamization in France, the suburb from where the ISIS terror cell orchestrated the Paris attacks (the mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaoud, was killed there in a raid). Saint-Denis is the religious epicenter of France. The “Lendit Plain” between the Montmartre hill and Saint-Denis was, before the Roman conquest, the Celts’ religious site. We know that Denis and his companion martyr Éleuthère paid with their lives to evangelize the region. In Saint-Denis, the holy lamp used for coronations...

Jihadi capital of France: Paris ghetto where guns are on sale 'every 100 metres' and terrorists flit to Syria and back 'with ease' The scene of this morning's anti-terror raid where the mastermind of the Paris bombings was said to have been holed up is in a rundown suburb of the French capital which is a hotbed of fanaticism, MailOnline can reveal. **SNIP** In the shadow of the Stade de France stadium where three of the suicide bombers blew themselves up in Friday's atrocities, Saint Denis is described as a 'hidden underworld' where would-be terrorists can flit to Syria with...

BREAKING NEWS: Police gun battle at Paris apartment 'where ISIS mastermind was holed up' ends with his 'wife' blowing herself up with a suicide vest, one jihadi shot dead and seven arrested French police and special forces launch operation to storm Saint-Denis flat containing seven Paris terrorists Mastermind behind Friday's massacres, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, was believed to be inside Saint-Denis apartment Female suicide bomber who fired AK-47 at police believed to be his wife or cousin. Other suspect killed by grenade Five people taken alive from flat and arrested as well as two others 'nearby' as stand-off ended after six...

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Two people have been killed in gunfire and explosions as French police carried out a raid in northern Paris early this morning.A siege ensued after officers stormed an apartment early this morning which was thought to contain terror suspects behind the attacks on Friday.A suicide bomber detonated her explosive vest during the raid, killing herself and seriously injuring five police officers, a firefighter, and killing a police dog named Diesel.French media reported that another terrorist suspect was killed by a police sniper.Reports initially came through of three deaths as a result of the raid on the residential building, however this number was later revised...

In 2005, the city of Saint-Denis near Paris, named a street after Mumia Abu-Jamal. Erik Svane & Arthur Wneir from la BAF decided to rename it "Daniel Faulkner Street", the name of the victim of the famous murderer