After months of threats from his landlord, visits to the police and a court hearing, Djibril Diagne came home on New Year’s Day to find the water had been cut off. Today, Diagne, his second wife and five children use outdoor taps to wash and cook. The tenants above and below him have both left, says the 64-year-old electrician, from a faux-leather armchair in his threadbare living room.
