French Presidential elections. Rally for the winner, incoming President Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party at the Bastille, Paris. And disillusionment for Nicolas Sarkozy's supporters at La Maison de la Mutualité. Francois Hollande beat Nicolas Sarkozy 52% to 48% in the second and final round of the French Presidential Elections. Sunday evening and night May 6th 2012

Disillusionment of Nicolas Sarkozy's supporters at the result of the presidential elections when he was ousted by the french Socialist Party's Francois Hollande, at Mutualité in Paris, on Sunday evening, May 6th 2012. Francois Hollande beat Nicolas Sarkozy 52% to 48% in the second and final round of the French Presidential Elections.

A Roma encampment, made up of broken down caravans and squats, next to the Seine Canal leading into Paris at the intersection borders of Bobigny, Noissy le Sec and Paris, was destroyed and the Roma Gypsies evicted during the morning of March 29th 2011. Romanian gypsies had been living there a few years Rom Roma roms rroms tzigane tsigane zigeuner zingari gypsy gipsy manouche sinti police policier gendarme eviction expulsion paris banlieu suburbs racist racism deportation camp camping caravan destruction devastation homeless SDF european sarkozy aggression CRS moving house home canal bondy bobigny noissy ile de france

Qiyaam and Ludovic, Muslims, praying together at home on a Friday..Gay Muslim married couple. Frenchman Ludovic Zahed born in Algiers and Qiyaammudeeen Jantjies-Zahed, who is South African. They were married in Capetown South Africa and they now live as a married couple in the Paris suburbs. Whilst it would be dangerous for them, and they can't go out together 'as a couple' where they live, they can go out freely as a couple in certain districts of Paris. They are both practising muslims and don't see their relationship as against Islam. Gay marriage homosexual couple muslim taboo homosexuality homosexual homo paris suburbs france sexuality religion wedding human rights controversy black white arab race sexuality consensual belief islam men black white love family wedding

Tunisian refugees during an evening gathering, waiting for food from Islamic support groups...Tunisians economic refugees, squatting the Parks on the city's peripherique. Mostly young men, who have been in Paris for 2-3 months, they around 20-35 years old who each had paid 2000 dinars/1000EUR for a trip by boat from Tunisia to Italy, then made their way across the French Italian border and eventually arrived in Paris. They have no jobs, no papers, the are continuall harrassed by the police and authorities. The are fed by Islamic support groups, most living rough. Most have some family or friends in France. Some entertain the idea to smuggle themselves to Britain. Porte de la Villette, Paris, France 2011

Colonel Muammar al Gaddafi, who has been de-facto leader of Libya since 1969 is welcomed on his visit to Paris by the invitation of French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Presidence. Elysee Palace, Paris, December 10, 2007. Photography by Nigel Dickinson

Mohamed Belaïd an ex-chauffer for the partie Socialiste in France. During the elections in April, he accuses one of Francois Hollande's minders of threatening him with abuse and violence, adding mud in the campaign trail to the PS Socialist Party in the run up to the first round of the French Elections. ..Mohamed Belaïd, pictured with hsi own car, a similiar size to the one he drove for the Socialist Party, Saint-Denis, Paris Suburbs, France, April 13th 2012.