Sarcelles or the death of living together – Liberation

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–The journalist Noémie Halioua signs, with “Les Uns contre les autres”, an investigation into the disintegration of the republican model through the example of Sarcelles where she grew up. –

«Anyone care, what’s happening to us?”: in 2018, after the attack on an 8-year-old Jewish boy by two teenagers, Noémie Halioua was sent by Le Figaro reporting in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), which she left fifteen years earlier. This question, formulated by a mother living in the “Jewish quarter”, strikes her as a “hole in the heart». «Once confidence was established, she agreed to describe the hell in which she lived. A daily life punctuated by terror and insecurity, filth and the impression of living in a world that is collapsing a little more each day, a world that she did not have the means to escape.“, she writes in against each otherhis second book after The Sarah Halimi Affair (2018). This “we”, specifies the one who works today for the Israeli channel i24News, is not community: it includes more broadly the suburbs, these “postmodern proles» which we rarely see on TV and on which the 30-year-old now in sight, who editorializes on C News and trolls on Twitter, has chosen to shine the spotlight for the time of this hybrid book, which balances between learning story and investigating the bankruptcy of the Republican model.

«What happened to them?“: to answer this question, the Sarcelloise plunges back well beyond her childhood, to the foundations of this new city built on vegetable fields in the 1950s. Once upon a time …

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