“Welcome, can I show you around?”
With a smile on her lips, Mélaine opens the doors of an old farmhouse with old-fashioned charm.
In the kitchen, a few people share coffee and pastries.
She greets them before going upstairs to show us the team offices and the rooms.
Today full of confidence, the 29-year-old young woman nevertheless remained stuck in her car for many minutes when she arrived here for the first time, a year and a half ago.
“I didn’t dare go out.
I was paralyzed,” she remembers.
A soldier in the army, Mélaine was the victim of an accident – which she does not wish to mention – in January 2017, during one of her first missions abroad, in Africa.
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