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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...trade beneath the trees, while older French women receive customers in minivans parked on the access roads. In Miller's time, prostitutes were considered as French as pastry. But with criminal gangs from Eastern Europe, West Africa and Asia now funneling large numbers of girls onto French streets, the Assemblée Nationale is ready to allay voters' fears over mounting lawlessness. The loi Sarkozy, as the legislation proposed by France's high-profile Interior Minister is called, is a ragbag of internal-security measures whose targets include gypsies, beggars and gangs found loitering in hallways, as well as hookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking It off the Street | 1/26/2003 | See Source »

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