In Marseille, we march for Soucayna, the student killed by a bullet while she was in her room. A white march in support of his family.
“A wave of bullets fell on our Marseille city. And our rooms have become coffins.” Lhe banners of the white march for Soucayna carry these words. And the drawing of a Kalashnikov crossed out in red, like a forbidden sign.
Dressed in white, the procession parades between the Porte d’Aix and the Prefecture, for a minute of silence.
“The atmosphere is very dignified”, tell us Mélanie Frey and Alban Poitevin, our journalists on site. 200 to 250 people walk in the streets of Marseille and talk to passers-by “Come walk with us, it could be your daughter, your niece.” Passers-by all know Soucayna’s first name, they all know what happened to her.
Soucayna and her mother’s friends are there, the neighbors too. Residents of northern neighborhoods feel more insecure than before. “Elected officials should come to our house to see how things are going, we are afraid, we close the shutters. When will this hell stop?”
Soucayna was 24 years old. The law student was working in her room, in the Saint-Thys district of the 10th arrondissement of Marseille, when she was shot in the head. She died two days later, on September 12. A bullet from a heavy weapon went through the wall of his room. Signed most of the settlements related to drug trafficking.
43 deaths since the start of the year. Routine in Marseille? A fatality ? Not for everybody. Faced with the height of injustice, emotion took over in this white march, the family received a lot of support.