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La Grande Borne

Housing estate in outskirts of Paris

La Grande Borne

Summary

Housing estate in outskirts of Paris

La rue du Labyrinthe, March 2007

La Grande Borne is a housing estate, in the Essonne département on the southern outskirts of Paris, France. The estate is located in both the communes of Grigny and Viry-Châtillon. The architect Émile Aillaud designed this housing estate.

Notable residents

  • Amedy Coulibaly, Islamist main suspect for the Montrouge shooting, and hostage-taker and gunman in the Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis
  • Patrice Quarteron, born in 1979, a French super heavyweight kickboxer, has lived in this neighbourhood. He is two time French and European Muay Thai champion and current IKF Muay Thai Super Heavyweight World champion

References

References

  1. l'Essonne, Banque des savoirs du Conseil général de. "La Grande Borne : une cité exemplaire ?". essonne.fr.
  2. Bronner, Luc. (25 April 2008). "Grigny, cité de la Grande-Borne : de l'utopie au cauchemar".
  3. Chrisafis, Angelique. (12 January 2015). "Charlie Hebdo attackers: born, raised and radicalised in Paris".
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