I think that was the occasion of my first mail to lbo, from my dial- up connection in the student dorm where I stayed then.
They were the first wave of Pasqua Laws' overstayers. The Pasqua laws had been voted 3 years earlier, with not much protest. 3 years later people started to realized what that meant. 10 years later Sarkozy is attacking kids and their families. And every year new laws are voted against immigrants.
Jean-Christophe Helary