A veteran “hood explorer” claims his eyes had been left “watering” by the overwhelming stench of “human s**t” as he explored a forgotten metropolis.
YouTuber Spanian was looking round a number of the most disadvantaged areas of the French capital Paris. He states: “I’m watching if I step on a f****** syringe – why the hell did I walk here what was I thinking?” “Poorest part of Paris,” or Clichy-sous-Bois is located around 15km east of the city centre and in the words of Spanian is “the middle of nowhere”.
“How miserable to be so isolated – no trains, no major roads,” he said as he first walked into the commune, which was the epicentre of the infamous 2005 Paris riots which rocked the capital for three weeks. “No wonder they’re kicking riots off,” he added.
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Throughout the video, one recurring theme is that some of the apartments in the huge housing blocks “look like they were on fire.” He later added: “It’s just a consistent thing that buildings all look like they’ve been on fire at some stage.”
(Image: Spanian)
“There’s pigeons living in one of those,” he says as he zooms in on an upper-floor flat with no home windows and what appears to be like like black soot marks on the wall round it.
“Every car here’s like abandoned and burnt out,” he says, pointing his digital camera at two side-by-side motors with no headlights and lacking plenty of options. Many of the flats within the enormous looming towers are clearly smashed, whereas grass and weeds sprout up via each crack within the floor attainable.
(Image: Spanian)
One of the residence blocks is open and he walks into the foyer, the ceiling blackened. “It’s like every one of these buildings has been set on fire but people just continue to live in it.”
He walks right into a near-empty procuring centre, barely any retailers are open and a handful of individuals loiter within the chillingly-empty concourses.
As he walks via one other block, once more seemingly burnt up to now he shudders. “That was human s***.”
(Image: Spanian)
Inside the lobbies, there’s graffiti, and poo, in abundance. “These are the worst condition flats I have ever been in,” Spanian says. “It’s like there’s no attempt anymore.”
He later makes his method across the again of one other block, previous a burnt-out automobile. As he walks he notes: “This place is crazy – the whole place smells like human s*** I’m not going to lie.”
(Image: Spanian)
As he displays on the neighbourhood’s troubled previous he finds images from roughly across the time of riots plastered right into a cracked little bit of walling. There are few folks about as he makes his video and by the top of it he appears determined to get away.
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