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“For 1000€ I will make you rich”: meet the marabouts, these “wizards” who promise love, success and health

2022-11-30T16:46:16.762Z


REPORT - Guaranteeing mountains and wonders, these "magicians" with a reputation for crooks are thousands in France. Le Figaro tested a “maraboutage” session in the heart of Paris.


Who could imagine that this small four-storey HLM, located in the heart of the Goutte d'Or in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, houses the lair of an African sorcerer?

Wedged between a grocery store where cassava and roots are piled up, and a hairdressing salon exclusively dedicated to Afro haircuts, the building of the marabout, with whom

Le Figaro

has an appointment, is quite banal: nothing indicates on the facade that an occultist resides there, not even a flyer promoting his clairvoyant gifts, while he flaunts them on his website.

Yet it is well behind these walls that “Grand Master” Adama* performs “bewitchments” all day long.

When we arrive in front of the building, on this November afternoon, the marabout is in full consultation.

"I'm sending you someone,"

he announces in his calm voice over the intercom.

A young man in a tracksuit, not older than 18, then comes to pick us up.

He is assigned to guide the marabout's clients to his waiting room...

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Source: lefigaro

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