The community has a history in France dating back to the First World War, with most arriving during the 1920s in Marseille as a result of the Assyrian genocide.

[1] Others arrived from rural south-eastern Turkey as a result of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in the 1960s and 70s.

Their numbers swelled after the Iraq War in 2003 by those arriving from Iraqi cities.

[3] Around 10,000 of Assyrians live in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris.

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