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“Special Envoy” had met Atifa in Kabul in the summer of 2021, before the Taliban took the city. We find her in Romorantin, where the young Afghan has taken refuge with her family.
“It’s my story”, that of Atifa, 16 years old today, whom the journalists of “Special Envoy” had met in Kabul in the summer of 2021 before the capture of the city by the Taliban. On August 25 of that year, at 10:35 a.m., she left everything, taking only two pencils with her… We find her in Romorantin, where she has taken refuge with her family.
Become a “useful person”
In France, she now says she leads a life “normal” with “a bit of comfort” and “devote himself to his activities“, in particular school, to become “someone useful“. The first day of her return to a vocational school, Atifa is a little stressed: she fears not having the required level in French, a language she has been studying diligently for a year. For her, a new life has begun. . She tells.
A report by Clément Le Goff, Pierre Monégier, Martin Lavielle, Francis Simoes, Siv-An Ho, Marielle Krouk broadcast in “Special Envoy” on October 6, 2022.
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