The road winds through the middle of the Rambouillet forest.
On the edge of a roundabout, a large white building.
A bell under the curve of the roof, a cross which watches over the silence.
And then nothing.
In Bonnelles (Yvelines), in front of the Orantes monastery, 78 Iraqi and Syrian migrants get off a bus chartered by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra).
They arrive from Germany, haggard.
September 2015. In the midst of a migration crisis, Bonnelles, 2,000 inhabitants, is the first commune in France to welcome refugees.
The mayor at the time, Guy Poupart (without label), has run the village for twenty years.
The Habitat et Humanisme association has just purchased this old monastery.
On September 8, the elected official learned that he would welcome refugees.
The next day.
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