After being threatened with expulsion, the young Guinean apprentice baker, Laye Fodé Traoré, learned last week that he was regularized by the Haute-Saône prefecture.
He was able to resume work Tuesday morning alongside his internship supervisor, the baker Stéphane Ravacley, his first support.
It is 3 am and Laye Fodé Traoré is busy again in the Huche à Pain bakery, in downtown Besançon.
This 18-year-old Guinean baker's apprentice, who was to be expelled, finally learned on Thursday that he was regularized by the Haute-Saône prefecture thanks to the mobilization of his boss, who had started a hunger strike ten days ago.
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"A rebirth"
“When we won this fight, it's like I've just been reborn and started a new life. I'm happy, emotional, and I thank my boss for everything he did for me. health in danger for me. All I have to do now is concentrate on my studies, because that is what I asked for. And I have the CAP in a few months ", s 'is delighted the young man at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Laye Fodé Traoré was therefore able to resume work with the baker Stéphane Ravacley, his internship supervisor, who had started a hunger strike ten days earlier to protest against his announced expulsion.
Victim of discomfort, the 50-year-old craftsman with fragile health had been briefly hospitalized.
But if he is relieved by the news for his young apprentice, the road is still long according to him.
"Kids like Laye there are thousands of them in France. If they go to work, it's because they want to have a better life. If they came in a rescue canoe, it's because they want to a better life. And if there aren't other kids who want to take their place, then we let them work. Me in September when I made an apprenticeship call, nobody came other than the migrants. So it is good that there is a problem, "he pleads.
Give these "deserving" young people a chance
He is campaigning for France to give a chance to these "deserving" young people who occupy training neglected by young French people.
In this sense, he joined the page "No to the expulsion of migrants in training".
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In connection with the European deputy Raphaël Glucksmann (Place Publique), he hopes to be able to have a bill tabled so that "all the kids who enter a training process, whether they are 18, 19 or 20 years old, go as far as upon obtaining a diploma ".
“Why invest in kids that we save and throw out because they are just 18 years old?” He asks.