(by Luana De Micco) (ANSAmed) - PARIS, SEPTEMBER 9 - Rue Mathis, Paris. At number 42 a young man of 23 of Algerian origin was found yesterday prostrated on the steps of a fast food restaurant, where he had tried to escape, his body riddled by bullets. This is the story of the ordinary delinquency in the northeastern part of the capital, the XIX arrondissement, one of the largest and most populated which leads the statistics of violence in Paris: the police counted here more than 18,500 crimes in 2007. More than the nearby XVIII where a little less than 16,000 offences were registered. A trip in the district, a kind of a Parisian 'Bronx': big blocks of apartments, grocer's, bazaars, kebab. Youngsters lean on the walls, at the foot of the barrack-like buildings, listening to rap music on their MP3 players. Here Arabs, black, Jews, white live on the same streets and go to the same bars. It is one of Paris's most mixed districts, a Babel of colours and languages, but living together is not easy. Assaults, anti-Semitic racism, drug and cell phone trafficking, domestic violence, gang stories, settling the scores between rival gangs are actually on the agenda. Wearing a kippah could be dangerous here. Audrey, 21, said: ''The Jews are watched every Saturday and are insulted all the way to the synagogue.'' This is how XIX also is the most anti-Semitic district in Paris with 21 anti-Semitic acts and threats in 2007, according to the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France. After three young Jews were beaten three days ago and after Rudy, 23, was left in coma in a public park in June, again because he is Jewish, people in the district are beginning to fear. Yesterday Jewish institutions cried: ''there is a true problem in this arrondissement where daily life is spoiled by insults and incivility,'' the president of CRIF, Richard Prasquier, said. The Socialist mayor of the arrondissement, Roger Madec, tried first to play down the facts (''after all, we can all live together'', he said), then he informed that the number of policemen will be increased for the Jewish holidays of October. But if the XIX arrondissement, at the foothill of the park of Villette and the canal of Orcq, has become the 'black sheep' of the capital, it is also because it's at the border with Seine-Saint-Denis, the most dangerous suburb, the department which hosts the most violent cities of France. From the big housing estates of Pantin, Aubervilliers, Saint-Denis, the pushers come to deal drugs between Stanligrad and the nearby districts of Goutte d'Or and Chateau Rouge. A police report, published in June, deemed the XIX arrondissement one of the 'main supermarkets' for the drug dealers of the Paris region. Crack, cocaine, marijuana and also ecstasy are sold at 5 euro in the discotheques: one out of six young Parisians said to smoke at least ten joints per month. (ANSAmed).