Squatting Parc du Porte de la Villette

Tunisian refugees during a street demonstration to draw attention to their economic plight. Sign reads 'Without papers, angry, racist laws, to be ashamed of' ..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

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Tunisian refugees during a street demonstration to draw attention to their economic plight. Sign reads 'Without papers, angry, racist laws, to be ashamed of' ..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