Mathieu Ame is getting used to sleeping on the sofa in his store. The 24-year-old Parisian has been maintaining an effective round-the clock vigil at his collector card shop since Saturday, when a riot started just a few hundred metres away at Place de la République.
While neighbouring businesses were among those looted, Ame’s store, Baron Collections, was unscathed, despite having dozens of cards and other pop culture paraphernalia worth hundreds of euros.
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