Alexandre was arrested outside the home of a friend close to LesYvelines, near Paris, where he had been staying because he has no permanent address, Molins said.
Widad, a 25-year-old secretary of Algerian origin, notes that when she was a schoolchild in LesYvelines, in the Paris suburbs, four-fifths of her class were North African and only a handful went on to study for the baccalaureate, the school-leaving certificate that is the essential passport to a university or a reasonable job.