Ethnic Chinese residents of the French capital say they are being systematically attacked and robbed - and they are campaigning for more police protection. Chinese community leaders say at least one robbery is being committed each day, often accompanied by gratuitous violence.
The numbers are confirmed by municipal officials and residents of the city's 20th arrondissement, or district, where many of the muggings take place.
The problem has become so bad that thousands of members of this normally shy community have been demonstrating on the streets, calling for tougher policing.
Local officials are not unsympathetic and the police say they have put extra officers on the streets. Officials say the muggers are often of immigrant descent themselves, from other communities.
But budgets are limited and residents say there still are not enough patrols, especially when they are most needed, at night, when the streets are deserted.
Businessman Wei Ming Shi was out walking with his wife when three muggers tried to snatch her bag.
"I fought them off but they hit me in the face and broke my nose," he said. "My vision was blurred for a week afterwards.
"These kind of attacks happen all the time, especially to Asians," said Mr Shi, who runs a driving school in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris and has been mugged twice.
"My wife has had her mobile phone stolen at least five times," he said. "Every day people are being attacked and beaten up, so we're scared."
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