Can the Olympic Games transform one of France’s poorest districts?

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France won the bid to host this summer’s Olympic Games, partly on a promise to rejuvenate one of the country’s most impoverished areas. Seine-Saint-Denis, is a densely populated working-class department north of Paris, that records some of the country’s highest unemployment rates. In July, the region will house more than 14,000 athletes and will host some of the top Olympic events. Not all its residents are convinced the Games will change the area for the better though, as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

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