[Applause]
beware of strangers like me you
have probably heard this sentence
when you were little and well this morning
there she returned to me boomerang
because I opened my door a
unknown
it all started on facebook
the magic of algorithms an ad
indicated that a French school for
asylum seekers and refugees looking for
emergency accommodation for a student
with cédric my husband it was
long time we wanted to act but
we did not know how to do it like
many of you I imagine
I responded to the announcement and everything happened
passed very quickly
24 hours later abdelak a migrants
Chadians 21 years old knocking on my door
when to open him and when he is
entered my home I was far from suspecting
that this experience this meeting
was going to upset my life and that of my
family
at that time actually I rather
realize the scope of my gesture the
first moments were shy
silent we do not understand each other abdelak
do not speak French and I do not speak
Arab
so I improvise I start to
to cook I make pasta
we come back to the fundamentals and then
the table I realize cape of lakes eats
very little I understand that he must have had he had
miss he must have been hungry and then I
see that he is exhausted
so I ‘m going to indicate his room there
collapses
he sleeps all the afternoon on his awakening
I want to know more about him
so he hands me a thick file like
that’s his asylum application file and I
understand that he went through the
libya I am a journalist I realize
reports and documentaries in the
area of human rights and I know
that in libya migrants are reduced in
slavery are victims of racism
some are sometimes enlisted by
extremists by closing this thick
folder finally I still ask myself
more questions
and then night falls
the first night and then that I had
not suddenly anticipated I feel
vulnerable
it must be said that Cedric is in reportage
i’m alone with abdelhak at home and
yes I feel vulnerable
he sleeps in the room next door I
hear him breathing then finally I
say but who is he and if he took it
to me and if it was a terrorist
I asked myself this question
totally unreasonable but I say it I
can not fall asleep I think that
I have not closed the eye of the night
and then the next morning to lakes
is in front of me at breakfast he has the
look in the void is not comfortable
as uncomfortable as me finally
and then I’m a little ashamed of my
fears of the day before but I tell myself that
finally it’s human after all
to be afraid afraid of the stranger
and then I have to go to work
I decide to trust him
entrusts a pair of keys I leave
work and then I come home a little
little earlier than expected to check and
I have a good indicator at home
my cat you see there she looks like
that when she’s afraid right away in
arriving I’m watching my cat she’s sleeping
on the couch completely peaceful good
and then nothing moved at home in the
house and then abdellah who actually is
in his room
he sleeps and then cédric enter a
colocation cohabitation settles on
shares the everyday every three
abdelak takes french lessons he
learn beekeeping and then realize
it is only that it is only
paris i understand that he did not speak to
his relatives for five years they do not
do not know he has kid arrived healthy
and except that he is in France he is
alive and then I understand that he is
isolated also in this process of
asylum application so here we want to
help him find solutions
so cohabitation hard a little bit
more than expected
so very quickly with Cedric we have
an important discussion because at this
moment there last year by hosting
abdelak, well, we’re outlawing
we risk five years of imprisonment and
30000 euros damende but we take the
decision to host it despite the
consequences
it’s finally a cdi that settles
between us no but no end date to
this cohabitation
I tell myself that some neighbors have
maybe have some orient fears
to arrive a stranger in the co-ownership
my co-ownership is a little bit my
integration lab and then everything
is going well
a neighbor tells me that she’s here and
she is reassured now that she has
met abdelak because that’s it
not there the disturbing figure this this
migrant she imagined or she
saw on television
finally he has a name he
is called abdelak here and then very
quickly I realize that the
solidarity is contagious I find a
pair of shoes one morning on my
mat
an envelope is deposited in my box
letters to cover these expenses
the most urgent
my dentist offers him a consultation
today it’s been more than a year since she
lakes life with us it is in the
room tonight but he wants to stay
discreet he speaks French today and
we understand much better I
learned what he experienced the hell he has
through
he fled persecution in Chad
one day the authorities discovered that
his father provided logistical assistance to
the anti-regime rebellion
the cat is not exactly what we
can call a democracy and a morning
the police raided the
family home they discovered a
cache of weapons in the garden is a
satellite phone
the whole family was imprisoned and
separated in different prisons to
14 years old abdelak finds himself alone in a
dark black jail and the pretty ones
seek to make him speak
so he starts with him thrown buckets
cold water in the face it does not work
then come the blows then the blows
and still blows up to break him
shins several months later
abdelak manages to escape begins
so the long way to exile
via libya it will stay five years
stuck in the Libyan quagmire before
manage to embark on a boat
pneumatic in the Mediterranean he manages
to join the Italian coast
Then he arrives in France in Paris and
this is where our destinies intersect
welcome a stranger under his roof
it is rubbing with the pain of exile
to the pain of his from his past of his
course
it was not funny every day I
you do not hide that we cried a lot
and then more materially it’s
share his space his intimacy
our apartment was not at all
adapted to a cohabitation
and then it costs a little money is being
one more table cover for one year
more than a year
but all that is nothing compared to
happiness that we have lived all
three i can tell you today
solidarity is good
I remember our first burst
to laugh the day we dared
after a few weeks indicated to
abdellah who is a Muslim whom he prayed
in the wrong direction
Cedric took out his compass for him
diplomatically indicate that this is
went on the other side
this is the day we really have
broke the ice and then after that
it was the beginning of a great complicity
and today it’s a little brother for
we and then I realized that our
story is far from isolated what
is in the news right now
it is rather the withdrawal into oneself
the rise of populism but there is
a warm invisible France
solidarity all around us
French act I learned that we
are born wired for mutual help for the
solidarity
spontaneously in the playground
you probably have to help a friend who
were falling here you catch up with it
but the problem is that growing up
our society and toof this ability
of help then I wanted to
take my camera
it’s my job and going to the
meeting these citizens who tend the
hand to also go to hear those who
benefit from the mutual aid they are
exiles or among the most French
insecure
I launch a web documentary series on
youtube it’s called notebook of
solidarity and it’s funded
entirely by the spectators because
I want to radiate its
stories because solidarity
everywhere that it is indispensable and
what to talk about
thank you
[Applause]
beware of strangers like me you
have probably heard this sentence
when you were little and well this morning
there she returned to me boomerang
because I opened my door a
unknown
it all started on facebook
the magic of algorithms an ad
indicated that a French school for
asylum seekers and refugees looking for
emergency accommodation for a student
with cédric my husband it was
long time we wanted to act but
we did not know how to do it like
many of you I imagine
I responded to the announcement and everything happened
passed very quickly
24 hours later abdelak a migrants
Chadians 21 years old knocking on my door
when to open him and when he is
entered my home I was far from suspecting
that this experience this meeting
was going to upset my life and that of my
family
at that time actually I rather
realize the scope of my gesture the
first moments were shy
silent we do not understand each other abdelak
do not speak French and I do not speak
Arab
so I improvise I start to
to cook I make pasta
we come back to the fundamentals and then
the table I realize cape of lakes eats
very little I understand that he must have had he had
miss he must have been hungry and then I
see that he is exhausted
so I ‘m going to indicate his room there
collapses
he sleeps all the afternoon on his awakening
I want to know more about him
so he hands me a thick file like
that’s his asylum application file and I
understand that he went through the
libya I am a journalist I realize
reports and documentaries in the
area of human rights and I know
that in libya migrants are reduced in
slavery are victims of racism
some are sometimes enlisted by
extremists by closing this thick
folder finally I still ask myself
more questions
and then night falls
the first night and then that I had
not suddenly anticipated I feel
vulnerable
it must be said that Cedric is in reportage
i’m alone with abdelhak at home and
yes I feel vulnerable
he sleeps in the room next door I
hear him breathing then finally I
say but who is he and if he took it
to me and if it was a terrorist
I asked myself this question
totally unreasonable but I say it I
can not fall asleep I think that
I have not closed the eye of the night
and then the next morning to lakes
is in front of me at breakfast he has the
look in the void is not comfortable
as uncomfortable as me finally
and then I’m a little ashamed of my
fears of the day before but I tell myself that
finally it’s human after all
to be afraid afraid of the stranger
and then I have to go to work
I decide to trust him
entrusts a pair of keys I leave
work and then I come home a little
little earlier than expected to check and
I have a good indicator at home
my cat you see there she looks like
that when she’s afraid right away in
arriving I’m watching my cat she’s sleeping
on the couch completely peaceful good
and then nothing moved at home in the
house and then abdellah who actually is
in his room
he sleeps and then cédric enter a
colocation cohabitation settles on
shares the everyday every three
abdelak takes french lessons he
learn beekeeping and then realize
it is only that it is only
paris i understand that he did not speak to
his relatives for five years they do not
do not know he has kid arrived healthy
and except that he is in France he is
alive and then I understand that he is
isolated also in this process of
asylum application so here we want to
help him find solutions
so cohabitation hard a little bit
more than expected
so very quickly with Cedric we have
an important discussion because at this
moment there last year by hosting
abdelak, well, we’re outlawing
we risk five years of imprisonment and
30000 euros damende but we take the
decision to host it despite the
consequences
it’s finally a cdi that settles
between us no but no end date to
this cohabitation
I tell myself that some neighbors have
maybe have some orient fears
to arrive a stranger in the co-ownership
my co-ownership is a little bit my
integration lab and then everything
is going well
a neighbor tells me that she’s here and
she is reassured now that she has
met abdelak because that’s it
not there the disturbing figure this this
migrant she imagined or she
saw on television
finally he has a name he
is called abdelak here and then very
quickly I realize that the
solidarity is contagious I find a
pair of shoes one morning on my
mat
an envelope is deposited in my box
letters to cover these expenses
the most urgent
my dentist offers him a consultation
today it’s been more than a year since she
lakes life with us it is in the
room tonight but he wants to stay
discreet he speaks French today and
we understand much better I
learned what he experienced the hell he has
through
he fled persecution in Chad
one day the authorities discovered that
his father provided logistical assistance to
the anti-regime rebellion
the cat is not exactly what we
can call a democracy and a morning
the police raided the
family home they discovered a
cache of weapons in the garden is a
satellite phone
the whole family was imprisoned and
separated in different prisons to
14 years old abdelak finds himself alone in a
dark black jail and the pretty ones
seek to make him speak
so he starts with him thrown buckets
cold water in the face it does not work
then come the blows then the blows
and still blows up to break him
shins several months later
abdelak manages to escape begins
so the long way to exile
via libya it will stay five years
stuck in the Libyan quagmire before
manage to embark on a boat
pneumatic in the Mediterranean he manages
to join the Italian coast
Then he arrives in France in Paris and
this is where our destinies intersect
welcome a stranger under his roof
it is rubbing with the pain of exile
to the pain of his from his past of his
course
it was not funny every day I
you do not hide that we cried a lot
and then more materially it’s
share his space his intimacy
our apartment was not at all
adapted to a cohabitation
and then it costs a little money is being
one more table cover for one year
more than a year
but all that is nothing compared to
happiness that we have lived all
three i can tell you today
solidarity is good
I remember our first burst
to laugh the day we dared
after a few weeks indicated to
abdellah who is a Muslim whom he prayed
in the wrong direction
Cedric took out his compass for him
diplomatically indicate that this is
went on the other side
this is the day we really have
broke the ice and then after that
it was the beginning of a great complicity
and today it’s a little brother for
we and then I realized that our
story is far from isolated what
is in the news right now
it is rather the withdrawal into oneself
the rise of populism but there is
a warm invisible France
solidarity all around us
French act I learned that we
are born wired for mutual help for the
solidarity
spontaneously in the playground
you probably have to help a friend who
were falling here you catch up with it
but the problem is that growing up
our society and toof this ability
of help then I wanted to
take my camera
it’s my job and going to the
meeting these citizens who tend the
hand to also go to hear those who
benefit from the mutual aid they are
exiles or among the most French
insecure
I launch a web documentary series on
youtube it’s called notebook of
solidarity and it’s funded
entirely by the spectators because
I want to radiate its
stories because solidarity
everywhere that it is indispensable and
what to talk about
thank you
[Applause]
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