Across France, some suburbs suffer from delinquency and call on public authorities for help. For decades now, young people, parents, school principals and local elected officials have been calling for renewed dialogue and the creation of infrastructures to provide a future for these territories.
To express their discomfort, about thirty young people caused damage in the Perseigne ZUP in Alençon. Images of the city, buildings, broken window. Interview with Fatah LOUHAB, president of the association. Michèle LEMAITRE, deputy mayor in charge of social affairs, is committed to providing assistance in exchange for compliance with the rules.
Interviewed, a principal of the ZUP des Minguettes, in Vénissieux, warns against dropping out of school. He evokes the danger for children to leave primary school several years late: "...this is the ideal client for the parking classes that were previously the transition classes (...) and there indeed, they are the ideal clients for delinquency later".
Interviewed, a young man living in the city of La Grande Borne in Grigny, Essonne, says of his living place: "La Grande Borne is a country of thugs, young people are forced to become thugs...".
Interview of a group of young people from the city of Beaudelaire in Torcy in Seine-et-Marne. It expresses their experience in the face of the absence of work and life perspective.
Des violences ont eu lieu à Toulouse, à l'annonce du verdict du jugement d'un policier, impliqué dans la mort d'un jeune de la cité du Mirail. Interviewé au sein de la cité, Akim Adda, éducateur sportif, explique : "Moi j'ai pas vu de responsables venir ici, dialoguer avec les jeunes, à savoir le malaise, qu'est-ce qu'on pouvait faire pour eux, pour les instruire, pour le travail".