Everything is calm in the square.
A basketball game, pigeon feeders and three preteens gossiping.
"
Are you okay girls?
No fights today?
», Launches Karamoko, the mediator of the city of Paris.
"
No, sir, we would tell you!"
»Above, the shadow of the Sacré-Cœur: below, the first fruits of the rue des Martyrs and the first souvenir shops.
The Square d'Anvers, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, has for some time become the site of confrontations between young people from neighboring schools.
On March 1, two intertwined brawls amassed around fifty schoolchildren before the eyes of stunned walkers.
The teenagers were separated at arm's length by the Parisian mediation team before the situation escalated.
Others were not so lucky.
Each week has its share of brawls between young people: in 2020, three teenagers were killed in the capital and 280 were injured.
To read also: Brawls: what is the “ban on appearing” mentioned by the government?
Claude Alexander, Mamadou Karamoko
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