It is indeed completely illegal to own a property where illegal activities happen, know it and do nothing about it in France. Reporting the issue to the police is an adequate step. And yes, people have been jailed for owning apartments where terror plotting happened. Thank you for this good exemple.

For the good of the discussion, I would however appreciate if you kept your baseless fantasies about council housing - which is both numerous and very safe in France, a country which tries to do something to mitigate poverty - out of it.

District 13 excellent series of movies shows that council housing ("banlieues") is exactly where these crimes happen.

> Captain Damien must team up with Leito, a local insurgent from District 13, to defuse a neutron bomb that has fallen into the hands of a local drug lord, Taha, and rescue Leito's sister Lola.

This "shows" those things in much the same way that First Contact "shows" how one may convert a Titan missile into a 3-person faster-than-light spacecraft in a post-nuclear-war Bozeman, Montana.

Banlieues are not “council housing”. HLM is council housing. Banlieues literally means suburbs.

Well, suburbs where these social houses are located and where police is afraid to go, stop pretending you dont know what all this is about.

if the administration took zero good faith demonstrable attempts to address it, then they should at least be removed from the position, yes.

if they refuse to take steps whatsoever, yes, that’s a problem. why does it feel like you both understand the problem yet are defending the problem at the same time?