Lala (first name has been changed) has already made her decision: she will not work during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris this summer.
“I’m too afraid of getting arrested,” breathes this 60-year-old Chinese sex worker.
We know there will be a lot of checks.
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About ten years ago, when she arrived in Paris, Lala was “one of the walkers of Belleville”, these Chinese prostitutes who walk the sidewalks of Boulevard de la Villette (19th century).
The fear of police raids and OQFT (obligation to leave French territory) gradually encouraged her to leave the street to receive clients in an apartment.
Because, like most of these women from northern China, Lala has no papers.
A year ago, she even stopped working in Paris.
“It’s become too complicated here,” slips the woman who now works in different French cities.
But there’s no question of taking the risk of getting arrested at a train station this summer.
Lala will try to put a little money aside to get through this.
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