Crowds pay tribute to transgender sex worker shot dead in Paris

Demonstrators took to the streets of Paris to pay tribute to Vanessa Campos, a transgender prostitute who was reportedly shot dead for defending a client from a gang of robbers.

Vanesa Campos, 36, was murdered on the night of 16-17 August in the Bois de Boulogne by a group of ten men armed with knives and firearms, a police source told Le Parisien newspaper.

Ms Campo’s murder has sparked anger among sex workers and LGBT activists.

Campaigners have demanded the repeal of a 2016 law which criminalises the purchase of sex in France. They say the law forces prostitutes to work in more isolated locations to avoid police - making them an easy target for criminal gangs.