Street action evoluated rapidly in Lyon as in every French city in the past decade.
No more French hooker
Most of the French hookers becoming old vanished from the city centre. In Paris a new wave of non professional girls had invaded the boulevards around the city. Not in Lyon. In the mid 90's, 2 French hookers initiated a new use in Lyon; They went and parkec a small truck on the side of a boulevard and used to give their customers sex in the truck. French mongers now call this kind of prostitution BMC ( as in Bordel Militaire de Campagne = Campaign Military Brothel).
Eastern Europe girls
First f all girls came in the mid 90's from Yougoslavia. That was hard to know where exactly from since they used o say Yougoslavia instead of their nation. Today, only oe girl from that period is still working Quai Victor Augagneur. It is reaaly hard to find her since she works mainly with regular customers.
Yougoslavian procurers also brought Russian girls with them. In the early 2000's, I met girls from Ukraine (not wonderfull) and Belarus (pretty but cold and shy).
In the early 2000's prostitution was prohibited downtown and most of the prostitutes moved to the area south of Perrache (the end of the Peninsula - la Presqu'