Margaret was a prostitute who had left her native country, Nigeria, for several years, to end her journey on a stretch of sidewalk in Marseille. Margaret’s path one day crossed that of the ‘Arrow Baga’ Originally, it was a Nigerian student brotherhood, aiming to promote local culture within universities around the world.
But today, they have become a violent and very structured criminal gang, which has chosen the machete as its emblem, terror as its law and pimping. Margaret* sobs behind the screen. This is the first time that the former prostitute has publicly recounted this day in March 2020 which still traumatizes her. And she does it this Tuesday, more than four years later, before the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal, by videoconference. It was F. who raped me first. I saw his underwear. F. was the first to rape me, without a condom.