Leïla’s impossible mourning, one year after the death of her daughter (video)

A year after the death of Socayna, her eldest daughter, a 24-year-old student killed on September 10, 2023 by a stray bullet that went through the wall of her room in the Saint-Thys district of Marseille, Leïla is struggling to grieve. Since the arrest and indictment for murder of a 16-year-old minor suspected of being the shooter of the burst that killed the young woman at a drug dealing point, nothing. She denounces “the deafening silence of the authorities” and demands justice.

Deeply affected by Socayna’s death, Leïla, 62, is going through a difficult ordeal. “I am a living dead, I survive only for my other daughter (Sabrina, 15 years old),” she confides to Parisian. The house is empty, terribly empty. I constantly think that Socayna will knock on the door and sit with us in the kitchen. She was everything to me. She was my daughter, my sister, my confidante, my assistant. We talked and discussed a lot. When I came home from work in the evening, she would tell me about the books she was reading. She was very educated, she taught me a lot of things. I went to Rome, to Saudi Arabia, to find out if there is something after death, to understand if it is our destiny. It is so unfair.