{"id":177177,"date":"2018-10-03T04:26:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T04:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177177"},"modified":"2018-10-07T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T05:46:08","slug":"the-streets-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177177","title":{"rendered":"The Streets of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h1>Lauren Southern &#8212; July 15, 2017<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z1Js8wntdk4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Tourists Flee \u2018Nightmare\u2019 Paris Amidst Rising Theft, Assaults, Terror<\/h2>\n<h2>Virginia Hale &#8212; Breibart.com Jan 2017<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tourists from China are avoiding France amid surging violence and crime, a Chinese tourism expert has said, reporting that customers are turning to Russia as a safer destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">President of the Chinese Association of Travel Agencies in France, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Zhou, said \u201cincreasingly violent\u201d thefts and assaults are turning France into \u201cone of the worst destinations for foreign tourists\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mr. Zhou, a representative for major Chinese travel agency Utour in France,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/economie\/les-operateurs-asiatiques-preferent-l-italie-ou-la-russie-16-01-2017-6572625.php\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span> a steep decline in visitor numbers from Asia, and said many tourists are now looking to Russia as a less dangerous holiday destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIn 2016, there were 1.6 million Chinese tourists compared to 2.2 million in 2015. The \u00a0number of Japanese tourists dropped 39 per cent, and Koreans 27 per cent. Our tourists have turned to Russia, which is less attractive but at least it is a safe country. For Putin, it is an economic windfall\u201d, he told <em>Le Parisien<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rising violence and aggression account for the drop, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/rmc.bfmtv.com\/emission\/les-touristes-chinois-fuient-paris-pour-eux-la-petite-delinquance-est-devenue-un-vrai-fleau-1083053.html#\/user\/logout\">according to<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Mr. Zhou, who said: \u201cFor a number of Chinese tourists, the dream of visiting France and Paris has turned into a nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201c[Chinese tourists] are robbed in the palace of Versailles, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, in front of their hotel, as they leave the coaches \u2026 In high season, not a day goes by without tourists being assaulted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Violent incidents in France have \u201csparked panic\u201d on social media in Chinese, Mr. Zhou said, recalling one in which an 80-year-old man was seriously injured as he tried to resist thieves, and he reported how female tourists have been pushed to the ground while criminals steal bags containing all their papers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Having lived in France for 25 years, Mr. Zhou said he has borne witness to the country\u2019s deteriorating security situation over the decades, which has resulted in Paris ranking \u201cnumber one in Europe in terms of the upsurge in delinquency\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While so far there are no organised campaigns calling on Chinese tourists to avoid visiting France, the experienced travel agent said that a boycott \u201chas already begun\u201d, with \u201cseveral Asian operators preferring to divert Asian tourists to Italy, Spain, and Russia\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Paris\u2019s regional tourism office last year <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2016\/08\/24\/fewer-foreign-tourists-visiting-paris-summer-islamist-terror\/\">reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span> a slump in visitor numbers to the city, and attributed some of the decline to terror fears, as more than 200 people have been killed in Islamic terror\u00a0in France since 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2017\/01\/18\/chinese-tourists-flee-nightmare-paris\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">This is tourist&#8217;s video of Paris that shows quite innocently, and without any political bias whatsoever, how the city has been transformed:<\/h5>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHJl-4ZZh4M?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video illustrates why Chinese tourists are being advised to avoid what was once known as the &#8220;world&#8217;s most romantic city&#8221;. Like other European cities, Paris is developing its own &#8220;no-go zones&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":177206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177187,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177177\/revisions\/177187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}