Around the Claudie d’Arcy roundabout, bodies huddled against the icy wind. In the crowd who came to pay tribute to Mehdi Kessaci, 20, brother of environmental activist Amine Kessaci, who was shot dead on November 13 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), a teenager stood against the surrounding noise without raising his voice. Sabrina, 16 years old, high school student. Calm face. On his side, his mother, Leïla, dignified and humble, was aware that coming here would be an ordeal. It only took a few questions from journalists to relive a still-open wound: the disappearance of her daughter, Socayna, 24, who was killed in 2023 by a stray bullet while she was revising in her room, in the Saint-Thys district of Marseille.
Sabrina didn’t cry. He almost never cries. It was a dry, solid force, “which prevented me from joining Socayna,” his mother often repeated. The young girl attended this Saturday, November 22, because it was “important”.
