Correspondent in Berlin
On the Allée du Soleil, in Berlin, where a bus was set on fire by a group of young people on New Year's Eve, only the blackened facade of a building spanning the avenue bears witness to the urban violence that shook the German capital and paralyzed the political class.
Here, once past the halal shops, shisha bars and sports betting shops lined up on Sonnenallee, the Neukölln district regains its impersonal character.
But Gerda, a frail octogenarian resident for forty years, has not forgotten the image of the vehicle going up in flames, the broken windows, and a lady being transported on a stretcher.
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I no longer feel safe, I'm afraid of being stabbed or something like that
", explains this retiree, unable to name the sources of this eruption of violence: unemployment, overcrowded apartments, personal fates... She evokes the existence in Neukölln of a population with an immigrant background - mainly…
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