A ‘constant wrench’: parenthood from behind bars
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MARSEILLE, May 5, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Nine-year-old Shadene’s face lights up; her father who is in a Marseille prison has just appeared through a door on the other side of the boxy, tiny room.
As he approaches, she stands, reaching to touch the window separating father and daughter. Automatically, his fingertips do the same.
Forty-five minutes later, a warden rings the bell visiting time is over.
Kamel, 40, blows kisses to the little girl and two of his sons but heading back up the stairs to his cell at Baumettes prison in the southern French port city, his face darkens.
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Children visit their father in a private visitors room at Les Baumettes penitentiary centre in Marseille, southern France.Photos: Nicolas TUCAT/ AFP
Nine-year-old Shadene s face lights up; her father who is in a Marseille prison has just appeared through a door on the other side of the boxy, tiny room.
As he approaches, she stands, reaching to touch the window separating father and daughter. Automatically, his fingertips do the same.
Forty-five minutes later, a warden rings the bell – visiting time is over.
Kamel, 40, blows kisses to the little girl and two of his sons but heading back up the stairs to his cell at Baumettes prison in the southern French port city, his face darkens.
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