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A resident of the Pablo-Picasso district for more than twenty years and locally invested, Fatiha Abdouni says she understands young people while condemning the violence. It calls for giving them the means to express themselves by relying on neighborhood associations.
Fatiha Abdouni is 52 years old. The Pablo-Picasso district in Nanterre, where Nahel was from and where violent clashes broke out on Tuesday evening between young people and the police, she knows it by heart. She has lived there for more than two decades, and since 2016, she has been mobilizing to help the inhabitants of these strange bluish towers. Fatiha Abdouni first created with a friend Les Mamans de Pablo, an association that provided support to people in the neighborhood who needed it. Now, the 50-year-old devotes herself solely to women, while always keeping an eye out for other issues Pablo-Picasso faces. “Exhausted”she said to Freed having spent the last three days discussing with local residents in search of solutions.
What general feeling crosses the inhabitants of the district after several evenings of urban violence ?
Of course, everyone talks about rape