Short joggins, improbable caps and hairstyles, on Sunday, there were fifteen to twenty boys to "hang out" at Square Alain-Bashung, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, one of their places of respite.
The age is indeterminate, says Rémi, a local resident:
“They are young adults accompanied by a few minors,” he
believes.
Coming mainly from Morocco, they regroup according to their cities of origin, Tangier, Casablanca, Salé, reproducing the phenomena of gangs that exist there.
Between two robberies, thefts of jewelry, phones or petty burglaries, they
"zone out"
in this square, smoke, take drugs.
Before joining a squat elsewhere in the capital or in Aubervilliers, for the night.
They also sometimes take root in the neighborhood laundromats.
These young people refuse any care, they go to hostels a little when they are injured or hungry.
And that's all
Jacque Desse, a local resident, involved in local associations
Sometimes they fight with pieces of wood, iron bars, knives.
"It can be very violent and very sudden,"
says Rémi, disillusioned.
This life of petty crime undermines the life of the neighborhood.
Certainly, Barbès
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