The video was posted four days ago on the Internet and has already accumulated several thousand views. These young Banyulencs denounce the situation of friends and their families, threatened with expulsion from French territory.
A tracking shot on the Vermeille coast, a few notes on the piano … Then, after about fifteen seconds, the first chanted words which tell the story of their friends. This clip, broadcast on June 14 on social networks and entitled “See you tomorrow maybe“, is the path chosen by young college and high school students from Banyuls-sur-Mer to show their support for a family from Mongolia and threatened with imminent expulsion.
Some attend siblings at the judo club or at school. For others, they are crossed faces “every morning at the bus stop“. In both cases, these young people have decided to mobilize to protest against a situation that they consider unfair, when the family arrived in France for almost 10 years and the children are attending school there.
I told myself that this boy that I see every day on the way to school, soon, I will not see him again. I put myself in his place. If overnight I was deported to a country I have never set foot in, what would I do?
Rather than a demonstration, the teenagers opted for this video which, in the space of four days, accumulated nearly 7,000 views on the various platforms. “We preferred music because music touches everyone, explains Gwénaël. It’s a bit like a rap, so it can affect young people, teens, adults. “A young director came to lend a hand to the development, carried out in a few days. Among the requirements put forward by the young people: not to show the faces of the family concerned.”We wanted to keep their anonymity, out of respect for them but also because they are discreet in everyday life.“, explains Sarah, a friend.
“I think that the clip can start the action and afterwards, relay with petitions, meetings with the mayor and the prefect“, Raphaël hopes for his part. A page has thus been created on the change.org website in order to ask what they can “live in good standing on French soil“and allow” these children to continue their journey with us“. To date, it has accumulated nearly 700 signatures.
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