1970 : La débrouille des SDF à Paris | Archive INA

Subscribe http://bit.ly/InaParisVintage Panorama | ORTF | 02/13/1970 In 1970, there were between 6,000 and 8,000 homeless people in Paris, 20% of whom were women. The highway along the riverbanks drove them off the bridges. The Rungis market made them disappear from Les Halles. They had lost their food and shelter, so they made do with odd jobs. Two "fellow sufferers" sell cardboard boxes on Rue du Nord to earn a little money. They get up at dawn to collect donations before the garbage collectors arrive. Before becoming homeless, one was an upholsterer, the other a dyer in Brest. Others were musicians, heating engineers, legionnaires, or even brigadier soldiers: "36 trades, 36 miseries." Living on the streets, they are guilty of vagrancy and dread the "blues," police officers tasked with rounding up homeless people and taking them to the Nanterre hospice, near the center of Paris. INA archive footage National Audiovisual Institute http://www.ina.fr #INA #Paris #Vintage