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Villiers-le-Bel
Villiers-le-Bel
Commune
	City hall
	Coat of arms
	Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
	Location of Villiers-le-Bel
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	Coordinates: 49°00′34″N 2°23′28″E / 49.0094°N 2.3911°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Villiers-le-Bel
Intercommunality	CA Roissy Pays de France
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Louis Marsac
Area 1	7.3 km2 (2.8 sq mi)
Population (2021)	28,836
• Density	4,000/km2 (10,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	95680 /95400
Elevation	64–147 m (210–482 ft) ; (avg. 75 m or 246 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Villiers-le-Bel (French pronunciation: [vilje lə bɛl] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the French department of Val-d'Oise, in the northern suburbs of Paris.^[3] It is located 17.4 km (10.8 mi) from the center of Paris.

History

A tragedy occurred in the town in the early evening of March 25, 1818, when a cracked 6,000 pound (2721 kg) bell being removed from a belfry came crashing down, killing approximately 25 onlookers. Workers who remained hanging from collapsed steeple were able to be rescued.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

In the 1950s the commune had about 5,000 residents but it urbanized from 1950 to 1974. As of 2007 the commune had 26,000 people.^[8]

In 2007 the mayor at the time, François Pupponi, stated that the city became a "social ghetto" suffered from planning errors made in the 1950s, as the community did not gain the businesses necessary to support the population.^[8] Jean-Louis Marsac, the first deputy mayor, stated that the commune grew without gaining the proper infrastructure.^[8]

2007 riots

On the night of 25 November 2007, gangs attacked a police station in Villiers-le-Bel, torched cars, and vandalized stores. The violence was prompted by the deaths of two adolescents after a crash between their motorbike and a police patrol car at an intersection. The disturbances spread to neighbouring towns on the night of 26 November. 82 police officers were injured, four of them seriously, by shotgun blasts.^[9]^[10]

Transport

The Paris Métro, RER, serves through the Villiers-le-Bel - Gonesse - Arnouville station on Paris RER line D. However, this station is located in the neighboring commune of Arnouville-lès-Gonesse, 2.5 km (1.6 mi) from the town center of Villiers-le-Bel.

Population

As of 2017^[update] 47% of the commune's population was under the age of 30.^[11]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,633	—
1800	1,350	−2.68%
1806	1,325	−0.31%
1821	1,178	−0.78%
1831	1,209	+0.26%
1836	1,322	+1.80%
1841	1,883	+7.33%
1846	1,979	+1.00%
1851	1,934	−0.46%
1856	1,951	+0.18%
1861	2,132	+1.79%
1866	2,107	−0.24%
1872	1,735	−3.19%
1876	1,968	+3.20%
1881	2,016	+0.48%
1886	1,968	−0.48%
1891	1,649	−3.48%
1896	1,644	−0.06%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	1,723	+0.94%
1906	1,718	−0.06%
1911	1,845	+1.44%
1921	2,377	+2.57%
1926	3,324	+6.94%
1931	4,389	+5.72%
1936	4,351	−0.17%
1946	4,209	−0.33%
1954	4,852	+1.79%
1962	12,797	+12.89%
1968	19,119	+6.92%
1975	21,876	+1.94%
1982	24,808	+1.81%
1990	26,110	+0.64%
1999	26,145	+0.01%
2007	27,091	+0.45%
2012	27,496	+0.30%
2017	27,676	+0.13%

Source: EHESS^[12] and INSEE (1968–2017)^[11]

Economy

As of 2007^[update] Charles de Gaulle International Airport is the primary employer of the area. Within Villiers-le-Bel itself the largest employers were the Charles-Richet Hospital, the Flopak conditioning company, Gilson medical material company, and public services.^[8]

Education

The commune has 30 educational institutions, including 11 preschools and 11 elementary schools along with four junior high schools and a vocational high school.^[13] As of 2007^[update] the commune does not have its own general high school/sixth-form college.^[8]

Junior high schools include Collège Léon Blum, Collège Martin Luther King, and Collège Saint Exupéry along with the private Collège privé Saint Didier
Lycée Mendès France (vocational high school) is in the commune

Two nearby senior high schools are in Sarcelles, Lycée la tourelle and Lycée Jean Jacques Rousseau.^[13] Students attending general high school studies go to J. J. Rousseau.^[8]

Area universities:^[14]

Neighboring communes

Personalities

Alexandre Beljame (1842–1906), writer.
Mickael Citony footballer
Marie-Laure Delie footballer
Gaël N’Lundulu footballer
Yoann Salmier, footballer
Kevin Vinetot footballer
Lino rapper
Mike Maignan footballer

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Annual Register, 1818, p. 52 (Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, pubs., London, 1819)
^ (9 June 1818). Foreign, The Reflector (Milledgeville, Georgia), p. 2 col. 3, near bottom
^ (29 March 1818). France, Journal des débats, p. 1, col. 2 (in French)
^ (31 March 1818). Paris, 31 mars, Journal de Paris, p.1 (seems to report that death toll was 19 and not 25)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ternisien, Xavier (2007-11-29). "Villiers-le-Bel, radioscopie d'un "ghetto social"". Le Monde. Archived from the original on 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2016-09-09.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) () ""Nous avons grandi à la vitesse d'une ville nouvelle, souligne Jean-Louis Marsac (PS), premier adjoint au maire." and "Pour François Pupponi, maire (PS) de Sarcelles,[...] privait la commune de taxe professionnelle.""
^ Ariane Bernard, International Herald Tribune. "Second night of violence in Paris suburb". Retrieved 2007-11-26.
^ Report of disturbances in the French daily Le Figaro (in French)
^ ^a ^b Évolution et structure de la population en 2017, INSEE
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Villiers-le-Bel, EHESS (in French).
^ ^a ^b "Les écoles à Villiers-le-Bel Archived 2015-01-19 at the Wayback Machine." Villiers-le-Bel. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
^ "Enseignement supérieur : Universités Archived 2017-04-13 at the Wayback Machine." Villiers-le-Bel. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.