Word that one of its native sons blasted his way into terrorist infamy has brought unwelcome scrutiny to La Grande Borne, a crime-ridden housing project in the gritty southern Paris suburb of Grigny. "He hasn't lived here for 15 years," said Brahim Agouram, president of the Muslim Union of Grigny. "Why should the entire Muslim community have to answer for one person's crime?" The person in question is the late Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who was reared in the dreary apartments of La Grande Borne, a 1960s idealist vision of working-class housing quarters turned 21st century dystopia. Coulibaly, a career criminal who embraced radical Islam while in prison, teamed with a pair of...
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