[GOP_1900AD]

I beg to differ. Ever walk toward the northeast from that station?

[July 4th]

I beg to differ. Ever walk toward the northeast from that station?

It's like Little Pakistan up there.

I've seen stuff like this happen before, although on a much smaller scale. When the metro people want to check tickets, they stand in a line across a corridor and make everyone show their pass. I have seen one or two people get snagged, and they give the ticket controllers total grief for it. I can imagine that if it was a large group of (Algerian, Malinese) youths, there would be a little bit more than a scuffle.

[Alter Kaker]

Ever walk toward the northeast from that station?

There are some not-so-nice areas near the Gare du Nord. Most people in the station aren't from the neighborhood, they're there because it's a major rail hub (metro, commuter, regional and inter-city) that handles 180 million inter-city rail passengers alone per year. Compare that to the 4.3 million that New York's Penn Station sees, and you get a sense of how big this is.