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A Slum Outside Paris

A slum outside Paris A cardboard city thrives a place where no one has to pay the rent and electricity are purloined. is it impossible for middle -class folk to understand but the Roma thrive despite living by a city dump where you dump your trash wash your hand and are happy to live in a block of flats and house the rules. Now they want to get rid of this illegal city that cost nothing to run and need not tramlines. But they are not like us do not share our values, no they are not like us the do not deplete the world`s resources and when the last car has stopped the Gypsies will as they always have done crossing the landscape with their children women and dogs carried pulled donkeys on ancient carts. And the man with a wristwatch and finery will offer them riches for a lift to better times.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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