Trappes

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Trappes
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location of Trappes
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Coordinates: 48°46′39″N 2°00′09″E / 48.7775°N 2.0025°E / 48.7775; 2.0025
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Versailles
Canton	Trappes
Intercommunality	Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Government
• Mayor (2021–2026)	Ali Rabeh[1] (G.s)
Area 1	13.47 km2 (5.20 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	33,717
• Density	2,500/km2 (6,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	78621 /78190
Elevation	143–174 m (469–571 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Trappes (French: [tʁap] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Yvelines department, Île-de-France region, Northern France. It is a banlieue located in the western outer suburbs of Paris, 26.7 km (16.6 mi) from the centre of Paris, part of the new town of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Trappes is served by Trappes station on the Transilien La Défense and Transilien Paris-Montparnasse suburban rail lines.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 561 —     1800 616 +9.8% 1806 584 −5.2% 1821 638 +9.2% 1831 718 +12.5% 1836 739 +2.9% 1841 799 +8.1% 1846 809 +1.3% 1851 910 +12.5% 1856 830 −8.8% 1861 774 −6.7% 1866 812 +4.9% 1872 918 +13.1% 1876 976 +6.3% 1881 986 +1.0% 1886 1,069 +8.4% 1891 965 −9.7% 1896 1,086 +12.5%	Year Pop. ±% 1901 1,114 +2.6% 1906 1,096 −1.6% 1911 1,270 +15.9% 1921 1,352 +6.5% 1926 1,641 +21.4% 1931 2,604 +58.7% 1936 3,419 +31.3% 1946 3,216 −5.9% 1954 4,885 +51.9% 1962 9,643 +97.4% 1968 16,799 +74.2% 1975 22,895 +36.3% 1982 29,763 +30.0% 1990 30,878 +3.7% 1999 28,812 −6.7% 2009 28,638 −0.6% 2014 31,854 +11.2% 2020 33,419 +4.9%
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From the year 1962 on: population without double counting Source: Cassini[3] and INSEE[4]

The suburb is known for gang violence and poverty.^[5] It also has Islamists among its large Muslim population, with 70 local people suspected of having left France to fight for the Islamic State, according to several sources.^[5][6] According to the French government, 67 people from Trappes have joined the Islamic State, and others have carried out attacks inside France.^{[citation needed]}

In July 2013, Trappes police station was attacked by a mob of French Muslims in response to the arrest of a man who had assaulted a police officer during an identity check on his entirely veiled wife (face covering is illegal in France).^[7][8][9] A man on the terrorism watch list of the French police, killed his mother and sister with a knife in Trappes on August 23, 2018. Amaq News Agency claimed responsibility on behalf of the Islamic State. However, French interior minister Gérard Collomb stated he was a man with mental health issues, rather than someone inspired by the organisation.^[10]

There are 36 municipal preschools and primary schools in Trappes.^[11]

The community has three junior high schools:^[12]

• Collège Le Village
• Collège Gustave Courbet
• Collège Youri-Gagarine

Senior high schools/sixth form colleges:^[12]

• Lycée des métiers Louis Blériot
• Lycée des métiers Henri Matisse
• Lycée de la Plaine de Neauphle

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• Nicolas Anelka, footballer
• Odile Bailleux, organist and harpsichordist
• Eddy Ben Arous, rugby player
• Barbara Cabrita, actress
• Jamel Debbouze, comedian and actor
• La Fouine, rapper
• Massadio Haïdara, footballer
• Kevin Harley, basketball player
• Cyril Paglino, entrepreneur
• Linda Pradel, handball player
• Shy'm, singer
• Omar Sy, comedian and actor

Trappes is twinned with:^[15]

• Castiglione del Lago, Italy (1971)
• Congleton, England, United Kingdom (1962)
• Kopřivnice, Czech Republic (1970)

• Communes of the Yvelines department

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trappes.

• Official website (in French)