Women are much more likely to appear in My aunt

Under the hat him down just above eyes, Thi Lee Tran (1) a discrete air. But this small woman of sixty-six years, "Métis of Vietnamese and Cambodian origin", is not the language in his pocket. "There is no shame to come here, she says." I worked all my life as a cook in the Navy and today, I touch rather a good retirement: 1.400 euros per month, it is not bad. I live with my daughter, working as a beautician, and three children. Is always made very attention to everything, we can't eat all day at our hunger, and yet it is difficult. When he must pay the rent and bills, it remains very much at the end of the month. They make me laugh with their advertisements on TV: don't eat not too sweet, not too bold... But it first must be able to eat!

Then at the end of the year, to fill a new hole on his bank account, Thi Lee Tran came will introduce u credit Municipal de Paris some jewelry in pledge, it measures the value in taels. A tael, it is roughly 37 grams of gold, and gold well mounted, with what I have here, I can expect a little more than 1,000 euros." The system has more secrets to it. "I already came in 2001, 2006, 2008 and, with my daughter, it is the third time that we have in 2009, leading it." But this time, I think it will be hard to recover what we have tabled. We get more to follow, and it is not only in fact, look around you, it is here for people of all levels.

Loans from EUR 30

In the room of the commitments already filled by the end of the morning of December - rush peak is expected to fifteen hours - devine is indeed a greater social mix. A veiled woman meets a Lady of some sixty years, wearing a large fur coat, which firmly takes his suitcase. "The first arrondissement that visit us, it is the 16th, said Bernard Candiard, the Director-General of the institution, but just after just 18, 19 and 20th...". And the Seine-Saint-Denis is now almost as much as any Paris.

In the middle of the room, a hairy man has eyes fixed on a Euromillions ticket. It we quickly understand that it is not want to discuss. After a long silence, he is entrusted yet at length and without reservation. As it off-loads a burden. "I have"balls", the first three numbers who have fallen in the lottery yesterday, I had. "The space of a minute, I saw wealth coming," says the Parisien of fifty years, who said work as archivist. "Someone in Europe is to receive EUR 59 million, and me, I must return to Earth, my credits to repay, my bills to deal with my problems." Then here, I just get a little oxygen.

If there is an average busy day at the Municipal credit, it about an hour before departing with the expected money. But he must sometimes wait much longer. The days preceding the departure on holiday are often the most responsible... You must use the home to present identity papers and proof of residence, expect a teller of the institution receive you, that proposed objects are evaluated by an expert. As all kinds of deposits are accepted: paintings, statuettes, bottles of wine, silverware, musical instruments... But the jewelry always represent the bulk of stocks (80). Women are much more likely to appear in "My aunt". "I brought a basketballs and a bit of metalwork, tells Latifa, a recently divorced woman of unemployed household." When you are in my situation, it is not easy to push the door of a bank. Piété, it is the only solution.

"Last resort".

"Only solution", "last resort", the phrase is often. Not far from Latifa, a young man well put loose not his eyes BlackBerry, as alien to everything around him. Etienne, thirty-five years, has for the first time at the Municipal credit and he was persuaded to be "an atypical cases".

However, the crisis appears to have led to the establishment of the Francs-Bourgeois Street a number of entrepreneurs and small patterns, like him, through a bad password. This merchant of real property made the voyage from Strasbourg to pledge his collection of cufflinks. 100 Parts purchased in auctions these past ten years, which he estimated the value at more than 15,000 euros. "I started to have unpaid rent of apartments which are not sold...". And in the face, I have to repay loans. In these moments, the banks are the last to help you. They have nothing wanted to know and have cut me all my cash credits. "Etienne hopes that the loan pledge on its collection, it will immediately invest in his company, it will take three or four months, time to unblock one or two transactions pending. "I paid 12,000 euros in taxes this year, as what it can really happen to everyone", loose, frustrated.