Adama Camara places a speaker in the middle of the classroom, leans against the teacher’s desk and grabs a microphone. The 1m90 colossus tells his story, the death of his brother in 2011 and his desire for revenge years later. “One evening I came across the big brother of the person who killed my brother,” the former inmate tells the students. “I didn’t hesitate, I opened my glove box, I took out my firearm and I used it several times on him.” Adama Camara is sentenced to 8 years in prison for attempted murder. “Revenge does not provide relief, quite the contrary”.
The thirty-year-old saw incarceration as a trigger and decided to raise awareness among young people. In his workshops, the former inmate uses the codes of these teenagers to make himself heard, he speaks the same language, broadcasts short films with rap. “I want to show them the reality of what happens in detention and in the families of victims. That they become aware of the consequences. The objective is to have fewer and fewer young people who fall into these problems of brawls,” explains Adama Camara. Each time he intervenes, he calls students to the board and stages a fight.
For nothing, for a look or an inappropriate word there are fights
Noélia, 14 years old.
“Fights like that happen often in the city where I live,” says Noélia, 14 years old who lives in a district of Seine Saint Denis. “For a look or an inappropriate word,” continues the teenager. At the end of the workshop, the bell rings, Hermann puts his bag back on his back. “It’s very good, he tells us his mistakes so that we don’t repeat them,” the schoolboy satisfied. “I got out of all the problems in the city, but my brothers have friends who are still in it. I’m going to make sure to help them get away from it.”
Tensions within this Stains college
Adama Camara’s association, called Sada (named after his murdered brother), was asked to intervene in Stains because there were tensions within the establishment. “There was a conflict between one of our students and a student from another establishment, we found ourselves with 40 young people who wanted to fight on our square. We had to call the police,” explains Wahiba Afouf, the director of Sainte-Marie college. “We therefore decided to raise awareness among young people about the issues of risks. We may be a private Catholic establishment under contract but we are not immune,” concludes the director. Adama Camara now raises awareness among students from primary school onwards. With young people involved in brawls earlier and earlier.
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