Échirolles
Échirolles | |
|---|---|
 Échirolles town hall with Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People reproduced on its façade | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Échirolles  | |
  Échirolles  Échirolles | |
| Coordinates: 45°08′37″N 5°43′06″E / 45.1436°N 5.7183°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Isère |
| Arrondissement | Grenoble |
| Canton | Échirolles |
| Intercommunality | Grenoble-Alpes Métropole |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023–2026) | Amandine Demore[1] |
Area 1 | 8 km2 (3 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 36,708 |
| • Density | 4,600/km2 (12,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 38151 /38130 |
| Elevation | 217–395 m (712–1,296 ft) (avg. 237 m or 778 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Échirolles (French pronunciation: [eʃiʁɔl] ⓘ; Arpitan: Ècherôles) is a commune in the Isère department, southeastern France. Part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration),[3] it is the second-largest suburb of the city of Grenoble, which is immediately to its north.
History
[edit]A former industrial village had the majority of its inhabitants work in the viscose factories, a fabric that was invented in Échirolles in 1884 by the French scientist and industrial Hilaire de Chardonnet, before becoming universally famous. The process for manufacturing viscose was then patented by three British scientists, Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan and Clayton Beadle, in 1891.
Population
[edit]Criminality
[edit]Located just next to Grenoble, Échirolles doesn't escapes to the growth of criminality, especially since the 2020s. It's mainly related to drug traffic.
2023:
[edit]Two men are hit by bullet at Échirolles and Le-Pont-de-Claix, on August 21th[4].
2024:
[edit]On August, France 3 Rhône-Alpes says that "a new shooting happened at Échirolles, the seventh one in less than two weeks[5]. A month later, a whole building is evacuated due to "the massive drug traffic exposing it's inhabitants to huge and immediate danger"[6].
2025:
[edit]This new year doesn't starts better : on January 4th evening, at 23:30, a new shooting happens. A teenager girl, walking with another teenager, and her dog, was hit on the leg[7]. She says few days later to the newspaper Le Parisien that she will have to "live with a bullet into the leg for the rest of [her] life"[8].
Few months after, on April, a new shooting happens[9]. The next month, on May, as well as Grenoble and Saint-Martin-d'Hères, Échirolles is one more time under criminal shootings[10].
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: EHESS[11] and INSEE (1968–2017)[12] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personalities
[edit]- Thernand Bakouboula footballer
- Seynabou Benga handball player
- Stephane Biakolo footballer
- Talel Chedly (b. 1978), footballer
- Vincent Clerc (b. 1981), rugby footballer of Stade Toulousain and of the France national team.
- Mélissa Theuriau (b. 1978), journalist and television producer.
- Calogero (b. 1971), pop/rock singer, composer and songwriter.
- Laure Péquegnot (b. 1975), skier.
- Gérald Hustache-Mathieu (b. 1968), film director and scenarist.
- David di Tommaso (1979–2005), football player.
- Sami Bouajila (b. 1966), actor.
- Guilbaut Colas (b. 18 June 1983), freestyle skier.
- David Lazzaroni (b. 4 February 1985), ski jumper.
- Sandrine Aubert (b. 6 October 1982), alpine skier.
- Jonathan Tinhan (b. 1 June 1989), footballer.
- Kévin Aymoz (b. 1 August 1997), figure skater
- Matteo Tomasi (b. 16 October 1998), footballer.
International relations
[edit]Échirolles is twinned with:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 16 April 2024.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
- ^ Unité urbaine 2020 de Grenoble (38701), INSEE
- ^ "Métropole de Grenoble. Deux hommes blessés par balles à Echirolles puis au Pont-de-Claix, lundi soir". web.archive.org. 25 August 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ "Guerre des gangs : nouvelle fusillade dans la nuit à Echirolles, un homme blessé". web.archive.org. 7 November 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ "Trafic de drogue. Exposés à un « danger de mort permanent », les occupants de l'immeuble le Carrare, à Échirolles, doivent évacuer les lieux". web.archive.org. 25 September 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
{{cite web}}: no-break space character in|title=at position 33 (help) - ^ ""Je priais pour ne pas recevoir de balle": le témoignage d'une ado de 16 ans, victime collatérale d'une fusillade". web.archive.org. 10 February 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ "Zora, victime collatérale du narcotrafic : « Je vais devoir vivre avec une balle dans la jambe » - Le Parisien". web.archive.org. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
{{cite web}}: no-break space character in|title=at position 41 (help) - ^ "Métropole de Grenoble. Un homme grièvement blessé dans une fusillade à Échirolles". web.archive.org. 28 April 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ "Agglomération grenobloise : une nouvelle fusillade fait quatre blessés près d'un point de deal - ici". web.archive.org. 3 May 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
{{cite web}}: no-break space character in|title=at position 26 (help) - ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Échirolles, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
External links
[edit]
- Official website
- Official website of the Paroisse Charles de Foucauld in Échirolles
- Museum of viscose in Échirolles
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Geographic | |
| Other | |
 | This Arrondissement of Grenoble geographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |