Musicians, Hakima and Amine have been participating for several weeks in a project carried out with the Jean-Vilar Theater in Vitry, where their son works, entitled "100 steps", a cultural creation to "slow down the pace".
From now on, they are the ones who fear to do them in a detention center, and quickly, while waiting for a flight that would bring them back to Algeria.
Hakima and Amine have not lived there since 2017 and 2016 respectively, when they arrived in France.
They have just been issued an OQTF, an obligation to leave French territory, where they "regularly entered with multiple entry visas", specifies RESF, the education network without borders, which organized a mobilization on Tuesday in front of the Lycée Jean - Macé in Vitry.
At 54 and 59, Hakima and Amine are no longer old enough to be in high school.
But it is their daughter, Ibtissem, who is registered there in general second.
“We had ended up forgetting that we were undocumented”
“This is not the first time that we have had a student threatened with expulsion and the school has always reacted, shouts this teacher perched on a chair, facing more than 80 people, students, teachers or activists, who came to support these parents. of students. The battle begins! The couple received their OQTF on January 14. He has thirty days from this date to leave the territory.
“They have a lot of links with France.
All the members of their family are here”, insisted Pablo Krasnopolsky of RESF, inviting those present to “continue to show another image of France”.
The network asks for a reconsideration of their file.
The couple lives in Vitry with the mother of Hakima, of French nationality.
Their son, also a graduate of Jean-Macé high school, is studying English at the Sorbonne and has a “private and family life” residence permit.
A relief for his parents, who hope to obtain the same sesame.
He himself benefited from a mobilization when he was in high school, says his mother.
“They have a lot of links with France.
All their family members are here,” insisted Pablo Krasnopolsky of RESF.
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Every two minutes, she is interrupted by people she knows.
“We are with you”, launches this lady.
“After a while, we ended up forgetting that we were undocumented.
A lot of people were surprised,” says Hakima, as she lists her activities in Vitry.
“Insufficient professional integration”
A volunteer for several associations, she is also a volunteer for the Portes-du-Midi socio-cultural center.
Her declaration of employment as an assistant to her 87-year-old mother, whom she takes care of daily, did not pass with the prefecture, which points to “insufficient professional integration”.
“At the moment I am training at the Louvre to be a guide during outings with children, for example,” she explains.
Her husband, who works in a restaurant, explains that he is a musician, and gives lessons in particular in associations.
It is in this capacity that he applied for the creation of the Théâtre Jean-Vilar.
Of which he finally fears not to see the outcome.
Contacted, the prefecture of Val-de-Marne had not replied to us at the time of publication of this article.