While Vanesa’s murder was committed by multiple men who were attempting to rob her client, her killing was not an isolated incident for immigrants, trans women, and sex workers. New French laws that forced Vanesa Campos and her co-workers to hide in the forest surrounding Paris in order to work left…
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Apart from the doors knocked in by police battering rams, the dozen or so nails hammered into the roof to hang…
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