Are there really shanty towns outside Paris?

Romanian migrants are the scourge of Paris - sleeping rough, begging ... 20,000 Roma remain in France, the vast majority gathered in shanty towns. ... Women there cook on a small stove while children run around barefoot.

However, there are about twenty of these shanty towns in existence in Ile de France, ... The Boulevard McDonald shanty town will soon disappear: the Paris city ...

I'm just wondering if there's more information about these dwellings - who ... I'm not sure they'd look so much like a shanty town or have smoke ...

In a suburb north of Paris is the shantytown known as Samaritan. ... There is no drinking water and the people living here have to wash in ... in 2013 during a campaign to rid the neighbourhood of its slums: 11 in total, of which Samaritan is the last. Then ... . A new sanitary towel advert actually has blood in it.

Despite Sarkozy's sweeping attempt to clear Paris of its slums last year and ... There are a curious number of baby strollers on the roofs. It might ...

With most Roma concentrated in the Paris region, where their ... A squalid camp in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine outside Paris (Getty Images) ... to get rid of the shantytowns and find homes for families, while keeping their children at school. ... is estimated at 20,000, but Mr Prieur said the real figure is much larger.

Migrants are living in shanty towns around the capital ... . Brendan Harris, time you woke up and joined the real world, their are laws that ... . Yes it is expensive but thats London, Paris will be for french people outside Paris.