A documentary to call for change? Maybe. Journalist Mélissa Theuriau unveiled her new project, “First of duty”already available on Arte.tv. A documentary in which viewers will be able to discover Makan, a Malian illegal worker. To earn a living, this 35-year-old young man combines two jobs. With meal deliveries by bike and working in the kitchens of a Parisian restaurant. Without this, he could not provide for the needs of his wife and children, who remained in Mali and whom he has not seen for years…
Invited to promote it this Wednesday, June 7, Mélissa Theuriau received the compliments of Mouloud Achour for her work, in “Click”. The host highlighting the fact that she succeeded “to put humanity on statistics”. “Because often, when we talk about undocumented migrants, when we talk about the Premier de chore, we talk about figures. We talk about the economy. There we see the human problems. We realize how much we have dehumanized These people”he noted.
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Mélissa Theuriau, her request through her report
The opinion of the moderator was obviously joined by the companion of Jamel Debbouze. She even remembered: “We recently screened it in the presence of Makan, lots of undocumented workers, it was super moving. But also in the presence of social workers, judges, people who work in the foreground who know all these figures and this economy perfectly. And who were upset because they agree with what you say there: ‘we don’t know their life'”. The journalist assures that Andréa, the head of Makan, knew nothing about her employee: “She has been hiring this guy for years. But she had absolutely no idea of the hidden, discreet, fearful, daily life of this worker”.
Through this story, Mélissa Theuriau wishes to break the many clichés linked to undocumented workers. “It is important to show that this country needs these men and women, that in no case did they come to take the job of others”she assures before asking: “Let’s treat them with respect, let’s reduce the time to regularize them, let’s make sure that they can live in this country by loving it. And loving this country is also being part of it”. An opinion, which will undoubtedly divide, but which has the merit of being frank.
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