In December 2013, the city's council voted to make Georges Ibrahim Abdallah an "honorary resident."

The city council's motion, which did not mention Abdallah's murder of US diplomat Charles R. Ray and his role in the killing of Yacov Barsimantov, an Israeli diplomat, described him as a "communist activist" and a "political prisoner" who "belongs to the resistance movement of Lebanon" and is a "determined defender of the Palestinian just cause."

The motion stated that Abdallah's release was being denied "primarily because of the intervention of the US government" and "To call for his liberation, the municipal council declares him an honorary citizen of Bagnolet.

"[5] In July 2014, the administrative court in Montreuil revoked the city's motion to grant Abdallah honorary citizenship.

[7] There is a private junior and high school, Lycée professionnel et technologique Saint-Besnoît de l'Europe.