REPORTAGE
Mantes-la-Jolie, Sartrouville, Les Mureaux, Trappes, and lately Chanteloup-les-Vignes. Riots have increased in recent weeks in several cities of Yvelines. In all these communes, however, social workers and mediators are doing everything they can to avoid this violence and help young people. On Saturday evening, after the urban violence that led to the burning of the circus tent in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, several mediators even avoided the young people burning a manger.
"There is still no job for these young people and that, they live very badly"
"We try to appease, to make prevention, but there are always small flaws", testifies at the microphone of Europe 1 Youssef, educator at the leisure center of Chanteloup-les-Vignes, which organizes sports and cultural activities and citizens for college students, for more than 10 years. "More and more young, they start not following the rules," he says. In the streets of the city, they are eight mediators tried to keep in touch with young people coming out of the frame. "It's true that the city is moving but there is still no job for them and that they live very poorly," says one of them on condition of anonymity.
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The image of Chanteloup-les-Vignes is such that to try to get a job some change their place of residence on their resume. A sort of psychological barrier confirms Cathy, deputy youth director of the city: "The dropouts are resigned, they feel to be cataloged Chantelouvais and stigmatized," she reports. "There is an image that is attached to them and then there is an image that they stick to themselves, too."
Mediators who prefer to stay in the shadows
Despite the violence and the problems, all these social workers are hammering their desire to continue this work of prevention. As for mediators, they prefer to remain discreet so as not to damage the very fragile link they still have with some young people in difficulty.