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(4,571 posts)Its skyline was crowded with the sort of high-rises the Associated Press described as public housing slums that breed violence and crime. Kouachi was listless and didnt adhere strictly to many Islamic precepts. He drank, smoked pot, slept with his girlfriend and delivered pizzas for a living, the Tribune-Review paraphrased Ollivier as saying. In those years, he worked a series of dead-end jobs as a pizza deliveryman, a supermarket clerk, a fishmonger and spent a lot of time listening to rap music.
And the guy you described as working 'for coca-cola' worked in a Coca-Cola *factory* -- in another city, at some point in the past.
they didn't have 'steady jobs,' they had a series of dead-end jobs.
At least one of the suspects, Cherif Kouachi, is known to police with a lengthy criminal record...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/01/07/cherif-kouachi-said-kouach-charlie-hebdo_n_6433006.html
The 19th Arrondissement is one of the most fascinating and complicated districts of Paris one of the largest, youngest, poorest, most racially diverse and the most criminal. The size of Grenoble or Reims, with nearly 190,000 people, the district, on the northeast edge of Paris, is split into at least three territories, with at least two large mini-ghettos, or cités, run by their own gangs of youths, who spar along the borders and sometimes clash with the Jews. And it borders some of Pariss poorest suburbs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/world/europe/24paris.html?oref=slogin
Kouachi's lawyer Vincent Ollivier said at the time that his client's profile was more "pot-smoker from the projects than an Islamist."
http://www.kcra.com/paris-terrorist-attack-who-are-the-suspects/30589408