It's hard to come back incognito in the middle of the afternoon in the bar Les Mah-Boules in Barbès.
As soon as the front door is pushed open, the barks of a staff rottweiler cross call you with more authority than any bodybuilder vigil.
“Now the dog lives with us.
I had recruited a security guard, but at 150 euros per day it was too expensive.
The dog is very dissuasive, it protects us well, me and my employees ”,
welcomes the boss, Farida Yahmi, worried about being attacked.
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Its warm Mediterranean café adjoins a dilapidated square in the 18th arrondissement, regularly occupied by unaccompanied minors - a status that the owner contests with them - at the origin of incivility.
Last fall, Farida launched the “STOP insecurity” movement with dozens of other Goutte d'Or traders who put up the slogan at the entrance to their shops.
Their anger echoes that of traders in the Guillotière district in Lyon, in downtown Nantes
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