“I saw the bodies of a family cut into pieces. »Farid, from 1is regiment of spahis
from Valence, was just 20 years old when he intervened in Kosovo in 2001. The discovery of a mass grave of 23 bodies in this village in the former Yugoslavia marked him forever. “After that, I was in complete darkness”, says the former soldier, with always shaved hair and square shoulders. As for many soldiers, it is once on vacation, far from the battlefields, that the atrocities of war resurface. Without ever leaving. With eyes filled with gratitude, he thanks his “golden wife”, his two daughters and now the Athos house in Brison-Saint-Innocent, on the shores of Lac du Bourget, in Savoie. “Thanks to these people, I see the light again. »
-This is the help that can be provided, since January 2021, by the three Athos houses in Toulon, Cambes (Gironde) and since April 13, that of Brison-Saint-Innocent. “We follow three axes: respond to the well-being…
