GRIGNY, France — In a gritty Paris suburb, Zineb, Danielle and even Benjamina, who is in his late 70s, say they only want one thing: to desperately get back to work.
Like towns all over the world, residents of Grigny, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of the French capital,are struggling after losing jobs in the pandemic.
But this downtrodden town, with its sprawling high-rise, low-cost housing estates, was already known as the poorest in mainland France.
Nearly half its 30,000 residents, many of them immigrants, live below the poverty line, surviving on less than 900 euros ($1,086) a month, according to the Observatoire des Inegalites, a non-governmental body that studies inequa…
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