Marseille: a summer in the heart of the projects | TF1 | Le Droit de savoir

Hichem, Kamel, David, Pastora, Dolores, all come from the northern neighborhoods of Marseilles.They live in often-unhealthy public housing in the heart of the projects. Like the majority of the 225,000 residents of these unattractive neighborhoods where unemployment is often over 30% and where only one in three residents pays taxes, they are spending the summer in their neighborhood.Residents who, vie with ideas and initiatives to help young people to get away for while. Because summer in these neighborhoods is a delicate time for those who don’t get away. Insecurity, unemployment can very quickly push young people into delinquency. And during the summer, business goes on. “Stay close to the wall,” says Solan, a teenager from Gavotte Peyret, “it makes people do stupid things.” Nobody hides in the stairwells of the projects and blocks of cannabis are sold openly. We followed the special police unit responsible for the fight against the drug trade. Thanks to them, we were able to understand how this underground economy works and the law of silence that surrounds it. Nora Presiozi is the thread running through our film. Energetic and charismatic, the UMP candidate for the projects, narrowly beaten by the left, she decided to devote her summer to changing the image of the northern neighborhoods. She goes up and down the projects trying to mobilize the young. Nora, the little North African who became the wife of a rich lawyer, takes us to meet our characters, the ordinary residents of the projects.