Villiers le Bel

Villiers le Bel is a commune in the French department of Val d Oise, inside the northern suburbs of Paris. It is located 17.4 km from the middle of Paris. A tragedy befell within the town within the early night time of March 25, 1818, when a cracked 2721 kg bell being removed from a belfry got here crashing down killing about 25 onlookers. Workers who remained hanging from collapsed steeple have been able to be rescued. In the 1950s the commune had about 5,000 citizens but it urbanized from 1950 to 1974. As of 2007 the commune had 26,000 humans.

In 2007 the mayor at the time, Francois Pupponi, said that the metropolis became a social ghetto suffered from planning errors made inside the 1950s because the community did not advantage the corporations important to guide the populace. As of 2007 Charles de Gaulle International Airport is the number one employer of the place. Within Villiers le Bel itself the biggest employers had been the Charles Richet Hospital, the Flopak conditioning corporation Gilson medical material company and public offerings. The commune has 30 educational establishments consisting of eleven preschools and eleven essential colleges in conjunction with four junior excessive colleges and a vocational excessive faculty.