Sarcelles

Town hall

Coat of arms

Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs

Coordinates: 48°59′44″N 2°22′51″E / 48.9956°N 2.3808°ECoordinates: 48°59′44″N 2°22′51″E / 48.9956°N 2.3808°E

Country

Sarcelles-Nord-Est
Sarcelles-Sud-Ouest

Intercommunality

CA Roissy Pays de France

Government

• Mayor (2001–2008)

François Pupponi

Area¹

8.45 km² (3.26 sq mi)

Population (2008)²

59,221

• Density

7,000/km² (18,000/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

95585 /95200

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

²Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sarcelles (French pronunciation: [saʁ.sɛl]) is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.3 km (10.1 mi) from the center of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Sarcelles.

In the south of the commune, during the 1950s and 1960s, HLMs were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs (French settlers from Algeria) and Jews, who left Algeria due to the Algerian War of Independence. A few Jews from Egypt settled there after the Suez crisis, and Jews from Tunisia and Morocco settled in Sarcelles after unrest and riots against Jews due to the Six-Day War and to the Yom Kippur War.

Sarcelles is served by Garges – Sarcelles station on Paris RER line D.

It is also served by Sarcelles – Saint-Brice station on the Transilien Paris – Nord suburban rail line. This station, although administratively located on the territory of the neighboring commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, lies in fact very near the town centre of Sarcelles.

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