Talking to him for an hour without being interrupted is a challenge.
Blame it on a permanent ballet of checks, of "Hello, are you okay?"
», The fault also to a burst of valves exchanged with small, teenagers and even old.
On this bench in Place Jules-Vallès, in Evry-Courcouronnes, in the heart of the Pyramides district, Malason is at home.
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He was born there in 1991, five years after his parents arrived in the city in 1986. At “Jules Vallès”, everyone knows the siblings of 15 children from which Malamine, alias Malason, youth and sport animator, comes from. “Big brother” in Évry.
"I started hanging out in this place at 5 or 6 years old," he confided on Thursday.
Malason studied at the college at the Pyramids, before being excluded in sixth grade and continuing his education at Les Épinettes.
Today, he moved to Champtier-du-Coq.
Neighborhoods in which he blended with disconcerting ease, especially thanks to rap.
“In 2007, I got into music, rewinds Malason.
I sold CDs at Fnac, I took part in tours of rappers like Alkpote or MZ, I made a little money.
At the same time, he works as an extracurricular animator for the city.
Until yet another more serious “neighborhood muddle”, which earned him eighteen months suspended prison sentence with five years of probation.
At 20, the town hall dismissed him.
"By playing together from an early age, children will have less desire to go to war later"
Malason understands that his legal problems “risk ruining his life”.
Sociable, the young man knows that he loves "contact, seeing the world on a daily basis".
He then graduated to become a social and sports animator and found his way back to town hall in 2018. His banter is spotted on social networks.
He is asked to present certain events such as the Nuit du Mali, at the AccorHotels Arena in Bercy, in Paris.
Locally, his position offers him above all a framework to organize very popular sporting events in the city.
"These are football or athletics tournaments called the Evry Olympics," Malason unfolds.
We have organized several between Évry, Grigny, Corbeil, even Brétigny.
In 2018 and 2019, we were able to mobilize four gymnasiums to host a tournament for children aged 11, 12.
"
Why so young?
“It's important to get them to play together from an early age: they will have less desire to go to war later,” explains the host.
Because Essonne, where the neighborhood identity is very strong, is plagued by brawls between gangs.
The phenomenon has resurfaced in recent months, with the death of several teenagers.
To prevent these clashes, Malason does not hesitate to use his influence.
“In 2018, I was driving towards the Canal district
(Editor's note: in Courcouronnes, historical enemy of the Pyramids)
when I saw a crowd of small armed forces.
I caught up with them and told them to turn around.
It was in extremis.
Even on their own, they respect me, because I am an elder. ”
A chaotic youth, punctuated by fights
If the young man of 30 allows himself to advise the youngest, it is because he has known the same mistakes.
"Brawls are wasted time, it leads to nothing," he says when he meets the "little ones" in front of their favorite kebab on the Place Jules-Vallès.
In their time, I was the same, I thought I was invincible, I did not believe the greatest.
Except that a child, he is told not to touch the plate, but as long as he does not get burned, he continues.
It's a game for them.
When I see the square empty and, ten minutes later, I hear the police sirens, I understand what is happening ... "
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A "game" which resulted, in 2006, in the death of 16-year-old Espère, a young person from the Pyramids, in a fight with the Canal.
Malason was 14 years old.
The injury is still alive: in inter-district tournaments, the Canal is still not integrated.
“It's complicated,” he admits.
“At school, we didn't think about math and French, but rather how and when we were going to fight,” recalls Malason.
At the time, no social networks to meet.
Brawls are triggered by chance encounters at the station or at the Agora, Évry's shopping center.
“The day of my driving license test, I ran into a youngster from Corbeil-Essonnes.
He must have warned his friends.
They waited for me six to one at the exit! ”
"For us, here, it is the mayor of the city!"
From now on, this sturdy 1.90m "salutes the people" against whom he was fighting.
“I try to tell the youngest that they are fighting against other young people in the same galley, in the same city.
It is only the street names that differentiate us. ”
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With his tournaments, Malason tries to "spread good vibes".
"I have the whole city on Snapchat and Instagram, sometimes I send a few spikes to other neighborhoods, but we taunt each other, it's still very positive," he explains, from the top of his 11,500 subscribers.
Its influence is also boosted by the recent popularity of Évry, the rap capital of Ile-de-France in recent years, and noted for its “CAN of neighborhoods” organized at Épinettes in 2019.
"It is one of the few who can tour the districts of Évry without having to worry," notes Kebson, 30, a childhood friend of the Pyramids.
Whereas it should be normal.
For us, here is the mayor of the city! ”