« Seen from the window of room 796 from which on January sixth last, a sixteen-year-old teenager from Mali jumped out into the void in circumstances still partially unexplained, the city lights give the landscape a strangely inaccessible appearance. We are at a thirty minute walk from the center, on the heights of la Résidence Belleveu. In the evening haze, the modest Marne county town takes on the image of a dreamed-about Europe. »
Olivier Favier