After this advertisement, around twenty similar shelters cluster together. Sekou, a fifteen-year-old Malian, emerges from one of them. He smiles slightly and says, “It’s okay, it’s warmer than the days before.” The two adolescents, who had never experienced such cold before, quickly fell ill this winter. “Cold, fever, I wasn’t feeling well at all,” mutters Alsény, under his black hood. The young Guinean, who claims to be 14 years old, arrived in France in November and in Paris two weeks ago, where he is accompanied by the humanitarian association Utopia 56.
