All except one, a convert, were of immigrant origin and lived in Brussels's poorer, though far from desperate, neighbourhoods.
Half of its current 1.8 million residents are of immigrant origin: second and third generation Hungarians, Czechs and Poles, refugees from the 1990s Balkan conflict, Afghans and Turks.
Indeed, only a quarter of France's population is of immigrant origin — a percentage that, according to Boucheron, has remained stable for four decades.
Children were considered to be of immigrant origin if they were born to foreign parents, either abroad or in Spain.
Over 30% of the resident population is of immigrant origin, from two main sources: the United Kingdom and other Western European countries, with a socio-economic level similar to or higher than that of the Spanish population; and other areas – Africa (fundamentally, Morocco, South America, Eastern Europe and Asiaa – with a lower socio-economic level than that of the native Spanish population.
It is "part of the recognition we give to those who live in the quartiers, because they are often of immigrant origin".
And France's surprise hit of the year, with more than 3 million tickets sold, was Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes, a blockbuster war movie whose stars are all of immigrant origin.
In 21st- century Canada a Conservative incumbent candidate in Calgary can attack his Liberal opponent as being a "visitor from Toronto" simply because she attended university there – despite the fact they are both of immigrant origin.
The crowd was overwhelmingly of immigrant origin.
The fact that Dati is a Muslim of immigrant origin is enough for the extreme right; that she grew up on a tough housing estate on the outskirts of the central French city of Chalon-sur-Saône suffices for the haut bourgeois elite who still dominate vast tracts of France's economic, political and social life.
