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Not to be confused with Pyramids of Egypt.

Les Pyramides are a district consisting of a large ensemble in Évry-Courcouronnes, in Essonne, in France. It is considered the most difficult priority district in Évry-Courcouronnes.

The set of buildings has been labeled "20th century heritage" since 2008.

Situation

The district is located on the territory of the delegated municipality of Évry-Courcouronnes, resulting from the merger between the municipalities of Évry and Courcouronnes. It is one of the most difficult neighborhoods in Ile-de-France, It is surrounded by the route nationale 7 to the east, the boulevard de l'Europe to the south and the boulevard des Champs-Élysées to the west. Today classified as a sensitive urban area the hot quarter of the Pyramids faces many fights.

History

Project launched in 1971 for initially seven thousand dwellings, it was reduced to two thousand five hundred dwellings on three hundred thousand square meters for a total cost of 792,000,000 francs. On an approximately square plan, built around an artificial body of water surrounded by a square, and surrounded by the vast Parc des Loges, with a terrace per apartment and pedestrian alleys, with kindergarten and elementary schools, a college and shops, it was to make it possible to reconnect with the village spirit. The buildings in the plan pyramidal are a stack of pre-constructed modules implanted on poles and slabs. Most were imagined by renowned architects, Michel Andrault and Pierre Parat, Michel Macary or Paul Sirvin. The neighborhood is designed by architects as a desire to renew functionalism and overcome the brutalist architectural style of the 70s. Thus, the Pyramides district is distinguished by an atypical structure halfway between individual and collective housing. The buildings are designed as a stacking of detached house with garden therefore, each apartment has a terrace giving the effect of a suspended garden. The buildings are very close creating winding alleys in order to throw the car out of the neighborhood and create a space for the exclusive use of pedestrians.

On March 9, 1998, Sinan, a 17-year-old teenager living in the city of Tarterêts in Corbeil-Essonnes, was shot with a gunshot by a young man from a rival gang in the Pyramides district, in the Évry 2 shopping center.

A 16-year-old man died in Évry, on the night of Sunday to Monday, May 6 2006, shortly after midnight, following a fatal stab wound on the collarbone. Two other young people were injured, also with a knife, one in the back and the second in the face. Quickly hospitalized, they came out shortly after. The first elements of the investigation do not make it possible to know the exact reasons for the aggression...

One element still worries the authorities: the victim was from the sensitive neighborhood of the Pyramides in Évry, while his aggressor came from the Canal district in Courcouronnes.

The facts date back precisely to December 23 2002, around 6 p.m. Between 15 and 30 young people from Grigny take a seat on bus 402 to fight with young people from the Pyramids in Evry. A punitive expedition that would follow an assault allegedly victim to a teenager from Grigny.

When the bus arrives at Evry, rue Jean-Renoir, the gang spots four or five young people from the Pyramids, mounted at the front of the vehicle. The confrontation is very violent. A 13-year-old teenager from Evry is injured by a stab that will result in seven days of total incapacity for work (ITT). Two shots of gas pistols were also fired during the schish. It is finally thanks to the video surveillance set up in the Tice buses that the police will be able to identify and arrest the two young people, aged 16 and 20.

Population and society

Population and society

Today classified priority district and zone franche urban, it concentrates ten thousand inhabitants on fifty-three hectares, inhabiting 52% of social housing. An unemployment rate of 19.1% in 1999, 24.7% of non-graduates results in a particularly low median annual income per household of 8,564 euros and the non-taxation of 57.4% of households in 2004. In 1999, the district concentrated 45.1% of inhabitants under the age of twenty-five.

Local culture and heritage

Places and monuments

Magic Skylight

Main article: Lucarne d'Évry

In 04 2021, a "window game" becomes the subject of a craze on social media and receives significant media coverage. It consists of shooting and bringing a football into the window of the garbage room of the building located at 24 rue Jules-Vallès from the opposite sidewalk. Now nicknamed "the magical skylight", "the enchanted skylight" or "the window of Évry", the origin of this challenge goes back to a video posted in 12 2019 in which an inhabitant named Djibril, nicknamed "the old one", challenged by screams, intervenes and manages to bring the ball in the first time ·

Places

As in most neighborhoods, the Pyramides in Évry-Courcouronnes are full of nicknames. Nicknames not very glorious, of course, but which represent the neighborhood. There are those who designate the city as a whole and those who serve to name particular places. To replace the Pyramids, the most common little name is "the Pyras", a diminutive. This is followed by a whole variation: "Pyracrimes", which takes its name from rap music, from a rapper from the same neighborhood. Similarly for "Pyragansta" which constituted almost all of a chorus.

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Gang sign tracing the word "Pyramids"

Apart from that, some places are located by letters, for example DNG, which means "Da North Gang". Then there is DRG, which means "dragon", a more rational nickname since the streets at the DRG are called "dragon streets". J-V for Jules Vallès, no relationship between the famous character and the Pyramids, but this is the name of the square, where there are shops and bus stops and meeting places. The "Mirrors" is another part of the district, which overlooks a bus stop of the same name.

This district is known in large part for its rivalry with the tarterêts gangs in Corbeil-Essonnes. It is identified by a finger sign tracing the word "Pyramids". To show and respond to the bands of the Pyramids their rivalries, the gangs of the tarterêts nicknamed TZ "Tarterêts Zoo" create a finger sign tracing the word "Zoo" and another sign of the fingers appears over the years of conflict tracing the word "anti-Pyramids".

Personalities related to the neighborhood

• Alkpote (1981-), rapper

• Cortex (1981-), rapper and internet phenomenon

• Ziak (1997-), rapper.

Les Pyramides has been a source of inspiration for many rappers such as Niska, originally from the same city, or Booba the giant of French rap could not help but talk about the gang rivalry between Les Pyramides and Les Tarterets in Corbeil-Essonnes: "Relentless war like Pyramids against the Tarterêts"

Annexes

Related articles

• ANPAR

• Évry-Courcouronnes station, located nearby

• Évry 2, shopping center located nearby

• Les Tarterêts, a neighborhood whose pyramid bands are often considered in conflict

• Grigny, Essonne, a city whose pyramid bands are often considered in conflict

• priority districts of the city's policy