Dominique Versini: “The stranger questions our ethics and our faith”
Collected by Aziliz Claquin
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Dominique Versini, on March 4, at Paris City Hall, where she has been deputy mayor since 2014. Rudy Waks for La Croix L'Hebdo
At 70, Dominique Versini looks back on thirty years of commitment to political figures from both the right and the left, always serving the most excluded in our society, whether they are children, migrants, homeless people, or even all three at once.
La Croix L'Hebdo: In the book you have just published, I Dreamed of a Fairer World (1), you reveal that, as a child, you experienced poverty, exile, violence... Were these painful experiences the source of your commitments?
Dominique Versini: When I arrived in France from Morocco at 18, I had no political awareness. I was just aware that I had to survive, and that it was difficult for single women. My mother raised me alone, and we were poor, in an extremely poor country. But it was when I arrived in France that I discovered precariousness.
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