here in southeastern paris the city's main chinatown which is home to large numbers of france's ition community the usually bustling neighborhood seems a bit subdued many residents a wary of speaking on camera but some are clearly rattled by incidents off racist abuse amid fears of the coronavirus a medium what a friend of mine who's asian was taunted and called a virus in a metro that's not very nice but. our customers wanted to know if our waiters had chinese nationality even though ours is a vietnamese restaurant seeing asian faces didn't reassure them to me because really given free rein to racism against asians something which in france was not really talked about and not taken seriously the issue was revoked aerated across the french media on the banks of the river same. a journalist has been following accounts by french have been targeted using the now popular hash tag i am not to buy it was. the french training. she has long campaign that gets them in france but nothing prepared her for these responses to an article on the coronavirus in china she translates into english you s