La violence des racailles

The violence of thugs at http://www.imineo.com/documentaires/s... "Approaching violence differently." Le Figaro La Commanderie, a housing project in Nogent-sur-Oise, near Creil. A den of schemes and scams, a territory controlled by gangs. How did this complex, built in the 1960s, become such a ghetto? Six months of investigation, two years of filming, four films made in the Oise region. The Creil area, where all the indicators of violence are flashing: urban, sexual, domestic, and social violence, delinquency, and violence against children, from birth. A single location, therefore, to follow, over time, characters struggling. Victims and predators. Sometimes both. And the desire to escape, to rebuild these shattered lives. From the garden city, now a lawless place, to the juvenile court, from a couple tearing each other apart to the stolen checkbook business, the stories told here justify neither the security rhetoric nor the naive idealism of those who don't live there. Where do these everyday acts of violence come from? How can we stop the downward spiral? "Great television." Télé Ciné Obs