“We had specified in the lease that it should be a traditional butchery selling all kinds of meat. We have nothing against halal butchers, but we want to maintain a diverse range of shops in the municipality, as there are already six halal butchers in Orly. There is only one traditional butchery left that sells pork: Mr Gillard’s on Rue Jean-Racine. Now his business will cease within a year.” The building is in fact being demolished as part of the urban renewal of the neighbourhood.
Hamid Mounsi is somewhat doubtful: “If I start selling pork, I will only have a 20 % turnover and close down within a year,” he says. There are far more Muslim customers here. The rule of supply and demand regulates trade, not a town hall.” “The city has opened up to everyone because it is constantly trying to become bigger,” notes Françoise, whose three new neighbours are all “families with Tunisian backgrounds”.
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Nabil, a customer of Mr Mounsi, confirms: “There was no halal butcher in the area before, and that was missing. Even non-Muslims can get their meat here, right?” The reverse case, on the other hand, is not conceivable, he concedes: “No, we don’t go to those who sell pork.” www.leparisien.fr
Wonder how much in tourism revenue the moslem invasion is costing Europe a year?
Does anyone know?