La Grande Borne

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.[1][2][3]

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

1. l'Essonne, Banque des savoirs du Conseil général de. "La Grande Borne : une cité exemplaire ?". essonne.fr. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
2. Bronner, Luc (25 April 2008). "Grigny, cité de la Grande-Borne : de l'utopie au cauchemar". Retrieved 10 February 2017 – via Le Monde.
3. Chrisafis, Angelique (12 January 2015). "Charlie Hebdo attackers: born, raised and radicalised in Paris". Retrieved 10 February 2017 – via The Guardian.

External links

• Media related to La Grande Borne at Wikimedia Commons

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