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Sebastian Rotella

Sebastian Rotella is a senior reporter for ProPublica. He worked for almost 23 years for the Los Angeles Times in various posts, including bureau chief in Paris. In 2006 he won the German Marshall Fund of the United States award for reporting on European affairs for a series of articles about Muslims in Europe that were published between April and December 2005.

Journalists Patrol Ever-Changing Borders

Soon after the riots last year in France, I was reporting in a big gloomy housing project outside Paris known as La Dalle: The Slab. A cold wind rose off…