Immobile in front of the gate of his residence, in the town hall district of La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), Farid Abdelli seems to be watching for someone.
From time to time, a call comes to pull him from his thoughts.
Messages of condolences.
Many.
His son Wanys, 18, died in the night from Wednesday to Thursday during a collision between his scooter and a police car.
Farid waited for him all evening.
Until that disastrous phone call.
At 11:30 p.m., it was the eldest who called him: “He said to me:
Wanys, he has a problem.
You have to come.
He died at Salpêtrière.
» The world collapsed on the head of this father of six children.
Wanys was the third of the siblings.
“I’m having trouble taking it,” he breathes modestly.
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