MC: In this city of 93, the movie Hate laughs the youngest who do not recognize it. They say "We are bourgeois, not revolutionaries" ...

The previous generation thirsted for revolt and social revenge. Today, young people are not politicized, they are only concerned with what will allow them to leave the ghetto as quickly as possible, in this case money.

And to have "everything, right now", traffics develop. We met the so-called "Madoff des Cités" who did a business school and excels at Delinquency 2.0. What brings in today is the virtual robbery, and the scams to fake bank accounts, and the fake credits. The biggest traffic remains that of the shit, "it's natural, it grows like a vegetable", and coke. It is sold outside the city to the golden youth of Paris. They do not consume it.

MC: Abdel, the hairdresser who has been living in the city for a long time, deplores the fact that she no longer has any clients, "she's mixed, she's dead at home" ...

That's right, women are invisible in the city. Even Malek had a hard time imposing on me as a "colleague" as if I were not a girl in this investigation. It's a lack of respect to take the phone number of a girl, you can not have a girlfriend, it does not exist. Girls no longer go to cafes, places of life, they are badly seen. They do not care and say when talking about men "We left them the 93, and we took Paris". An escort who has been baptized, the "Queen of Whores", explains "What are we losing? A bunch of gray tricks, guys who scratch their balls on a bench, great good they do, we prefer to go on the Champs-Elysees! She is one of the few prostitutes who are doing well. I had met her during an investigation for Marie Claire on prostitution in the suburbs. She is 30 years old, she is more malignant than the 20-year-olds who are under the thumb of a mac. She, she has a free speech but many of these girls are dented.

MC: What are halal marriages? Why are they growing more and more?

It is a religious marriage in front of the imam without going through the town hall. Officially, you are not married, but it is a prerequisite to live with your guy outside the city while preserving the honor of the family. For the couple of Salafists I met, it's different, they do not recognize the value of a Republican wedding. In one year, I did not see any marriage celebrated at the town hall. Codes traditions are more important than Republican laws.

MC: Has this long-term survey changed your view of cities?

Daughter of teachers, I grew up in a city where it had been violent because I did not belong to this world there. I came back ten years later with Malek who helped me unlock the accesses. I benefited from this confidence given by ricochet. I had a special treatment, I had a good time but I do not live there. I saw that for a girl, life is not rosy when you grow up in the suburbs. The patriarchal system works, and the studies are more complicated when you are born on this side of the periphery.

Prostitution is one of the answers that girls have found, religion is another. Those who do, a minority, are all the more deserving.

* " The part of the Ghetto ", Editions Fayard. Publication on March 26, 2018, € 17.