It's almost five o'clock.
In front of the gates of one of the colleges in Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise), Hind Ayadi, founder and president of the Espoir et Création association, is waiting for a third year student.
Earlier today, she was called by a mother.
Three times, in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon.
At the end of the line, a worried voice.
"She insisted that I go get her son after school to avoid him getting caught up in a gang fight," says Hind Ayadi.
A few days earlier, the teenager had been beaten by several young people from a rival neighborhood.
She is "neither educator nor social worker".
When she created her association 13 years ago, this interior designer by trade wanted to convey her passion for design and make residents aware of ecological issues.
Over the years, she has become a key figure in the city, especially for her work in the fight against brawls.
"It is not in my missions, I just adapted little by little, because there was a need", confides the forty-something constantly solicited on this issue and available day and night to defuse inter-district conflicts .
"I cannot stay without doing anything"
Not surprising then, that Friday, to see Hind Ayadi picking up the schoolboy at his mother's request.
“They tell me that I don't have to go, it's true, but I can't sit back and do nothing,” she breathes.
I had to cut an appointment short.
She crosses town in her car and takes three young people, including Jonathan
(the first name has been changed)
, all of whom were involved in the brawls not so long ago.
“I wanted them to realize
the legacy
they had left for the little ones, the consequences of their fights on the youngest and the families.
"
In front of the college, the presence of Hind Ayadi helps ease tensions.
She discusses with the schoolboy, and his "adversaries".
Jonathan, 20, also speaks.
"I wanted them to understand that all this is useless," he insists.
Later, he promises the mother of the family "that nothing will happen to his son", "not to worry anymore, the situation hurt me, it could have been my mother in his place", lets go. young man.
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This is not the first time that Hind Ayadi has found himself picking up a college student after class.
"It has happened several times," she confirms.
Several kilometers away, in Paris, a field actor from the 19th arrondissement explains that he knows families in the same situation.
“We have parents whose teens are in trouble and who find themselves picking them up at the end of classes, punctually.
“Same observation a few months ago in a college in Grigny in Essonne, relates a former educator.
Chat over and over with young people
A week after moving, Hind Ayadi has no further news from the mother.
"I imagine it's fine with her son," she reacts.
This is also what is a shame, there is no follow-up and I do not have the means either from a financial point of view or from a human point of view.
These actions, I do them in addition to my daily work.
"
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This Friday, she was once again mobilized.
This time, as part of an intervention with college students.
Three meetings were organized at the Doucettes social center between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. with several classes from the sector college to make students aware of the danger of fights.
At his side, the city's youth service and two activists from Seine-Saint-Denis: Wesley Ngo Baheng, native of Blanc-Mesnil, former professional footballer turned entrepreneur, and Bakary Soukouna of the Nuage association in Saint-Denis.
The assembly is attentive, the young people ask questions, give their opinion, even if it displeases them.
"From the moment they feel heard, they react and this is important because they are the main concerned", underlines Wesley Ngo Baheng.
Discuss again and again but also "supporting these young people in projects to build their future, that is part of the solutions that allow us to end brawls," insists Hind Ayadi.
There are associations, actions put in place like the Brigade des daronnes in the 94, this is what we must support and not try to resolve this violence by violence ”, insists this brunette with a strong character who regrets “the over-media coverage of fights.
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"Brawls: one more death ... but how many victims"
In recent weeks, many brawls have broken out in Ile-de-France.
And schools are not immune to this violence.
However, it is difficult to quantify this phenomenon, far from being new, but accentuated in this period of health crisis.
Already in 2019, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, evoked "every day between 20 and 30 serious incidents, to be compared to the 63,000 school establishments in France".
He then promised to make the acts of violence public department by department.
Contacted, the ministry announces "that no communication is planned" on this subject.
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Between December and February, surveys were carried out on the subject within the Academy of Versailles, the largest in France.
“For this first phase, nine territories have been defined in the academy, including six in Essonne,” reveals the rectorate of Versailles.
In addition to highlighting the history of conflicts, these studies make it possible "to deploy a very localized approach to situations and to feed the global reflection carried out around the phenomena of brawls.
"
This reflection, Hind Ayadi has been leading it for several years now.
"It can be done if there is a common work between the communities, the associations of close proximity identified, the parents who have not resigned as we can hear but are sometimes overwhelmed, the National Education ...", she insists.
In recent weeks, his poster campaign against brawls with young people has been visible in the colleges of Garges-lès-Gonesse, with this message inscribed above a student in a schoolyard surrounded by bodies: " Brawls: one more death… but how many victims ”.
A deliberately difficult message in the hope of raising awareness.