I have also been in Place de Republique in Paris, a huge tourist site, after dark, when it is hideously transformed into a repository for every kind of vice. Utterly shocked, I got out of there as fast as I could. Why were the police so impotent that they were unable to guarantee the safety of this major tourist destination after dark? To me, is speaks of something very disturbing about the European sense of morality.
You have great insigbt into that dynamic.
Please feel free to tell us more first hand accounts - it’s a fascinating look into a world few of us ever see.