Center social de la Busserine in Marseille -
C. Delabroy / 20 Minutes
This Saturday, about 150 inhabitants of Busserine, an impoverished city of the 14th arrondissement of Marseille affected by drug trafficking, gathered to say "stop violence".
"Through this gathering, we, residents and social workers, want to mark our collective resistance to this violence, to be recognized as full citizens", explained the demonstrators in a text read to the press.
“We demand dignity and respect.
We just want to be able to live in peace, ”they added.
The demonstrators, including many women and mothers, walked from a building in the city to the stadium near which, on January 1, a 22-year-old man was wounded by gunshot wounds. legs and back after a muscular altercation, following a football match organized in support of the family of a young man who died from an illness.
The shooter is still on the run, and this event was used for a lot of electroshock.
In front of the stadium gates, the demonstrators symbolically brandished sheets of white paper over their heads with the words “stop violence”.
“We are afraid, we do not feel protected.
We are being held hostage, "Saloua, a resident who prefers to keep her last name silent, told AFP, explaining that the 6 pm curfew does not prevent young people from hanging out outside and" making their own law " .
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