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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.88,0:00:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At a certain time,\Na few years before that,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.04,0:00:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in a gloomy cell,\Nin the detention center at Fresnes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.62,0:00:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was pacing, in the cell,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.08,0:00:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they took away our mattresses,\Nthen, so you had to stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.71,0:00:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a corner of the cell,\Nthere are toilets,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.33,0:00:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hear a few bubbles, so I lean over,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.88,0:00:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go over and have a look,\Nand what do I see?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.29,0:00:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see a rat who sticks his head out,\Ntakes a breath, and goes back down.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.88,0:00:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm telling you, I didn't go\Nto the toilet straight away.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.84,0:00:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said to myself that I was\Nin quite a difficult situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.04,0:00:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as I was alone, in complete isolation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.88,0:00:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in in the dark, I saw no-one.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.50,0:00:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It had been a few days\Nsince I had spoken to anyone -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.46,0:00:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said to myself,\N"I will share my bread with him."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.13,0:01:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put a little piece of bread\Nbeside the toilets. I waited.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.33,0:01:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next day, poof, he had gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.83,0:01:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two days later, the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.88,0:01:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally the rat started\Nto get a little bit bolder
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.58,0:01:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few days later, there I was,\Nbeside my friend the rat.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.17,0:01:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I shared a few little secrets,\Nand told him a bit about my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.46,0:01:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he was listening.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.88,0:01:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was nibbling his piece of bread,\Nbut he was listening to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.21,0:01:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was there. I had some company,\NI had some support, a sympathetic ear.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.74,0:01:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was great.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.25,0:01:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, I get to the end\Nof my 45 days of solitary,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.46,0:01:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's time to leave.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.04,0:01:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we are sitting down, side by side,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.63,0:01:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we looked at each other,\Nwe said our goodbyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.33,0:01:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I promise you, I saw\Na little tear, on both sides,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.37,0:01:59.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I left solitary confinement.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.50,0:02:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wondered to myself,\N"How did I end up here?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.88,0:02:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the story goes that in December 84,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am with a friend, a girlfriend,\Nmy fiancé at that time,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am attacked by eight skinheads.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.25,0:02:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back then, these were violent people,\Nin fact, they still are, but anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.58,0:02:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, I pulled out a gun,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.75,0:02:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I shot, because I thought\Nthey were going to hurt her.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.75,0:02:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I shot, and one of them died,\Nand one was injured.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.96,0:02:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two days later, I am in a prison van,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.38,0:02:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on my way to the largest prison\Nin Europe, called Fleury-Merogis.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.83,0:02:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had never seen a prison, I had\Nnever seen a prison van, nor a cage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.33,0:02:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know that they locked\Nhuman beings in cages.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.50,0:02:55.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It came as quite a shock.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.12,0:03:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wound up in reception,\Nwhich is at the center of Fleury-Merogis,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.58,0:03:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where new arrivals are processed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.75,0:03:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was the the first time\NI had to strip in front of anyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.17,0:03:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First humiliation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.50,0:03:14.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next, I go to the registry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.17,0:03:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You hand over your things,\Nyour identity card, etc.,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.94,0:03:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're given a number.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.50,0:03:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this number, you remember\Nfor the rest of your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.05,0:03:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,138496Q.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.50,0:03:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next, you are left in custody.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.88,0:03:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is prison? It is not\Nonly the denial of freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.12,0:03:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is also misery, it is also\Nlack of hygiene, lack of care,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.96,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overcrowding, and a whole load\Nof things which are really inhuman.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.71,0:03:49.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And most of all, violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.75,0:03:53.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You walk in, you have\Nto fight, straight away.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.96,0:03:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a hard world,\Nand you have to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.38,0:04:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I am in prison, I start my sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.29,0:04:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that time, it was\Nthe 80s, it was in 85,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.21,0:04:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fairly widespread illness,\Nis becoming an epidemic.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.08,0:04:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the tests started,\Ntests to see if you had AIDS.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.58,0:04:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have a test.\NAnd I find out that I am HIV positive.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.83,0:04:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, not a good start in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.12,0:04:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From that point onwards,\NI have only one thing on my mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.52,0:04:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's to escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.63,0:04:35.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because back then, it was thought you only\Nhad three years or five years max.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.00,0:04:39.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was obsessed with one thing: to escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.00,0:04:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I do four years in Fleury-Mérogis,\Nthen I am transferred.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.71,0:04:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I manage to get\Na mid-sentence day release,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.17,0:04:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because at that time,\NI had a ten year sentence,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.63,0:04:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they knew that I had been assaulted.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.58,0:05:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have no hope, I am ill,\NI know that I might die tomorrow,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.04,0:05:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can't bear prison\Nany longer, the way it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.92,0:05:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't bear the inhuman way\Nthey treat people, any longer,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.80,0:05:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I go on the run.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.08,0:05:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the run, there aren't many options.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.92,0:05:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To survive on the run, you need money.\NYou can't go to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.75,0:05:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I start stealing, and I go back
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.17,0:05:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to doing hold-ups, and I become a raider.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.88,0:05:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get caught, I get another 2-3 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.58,0:05:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in 93 I'm released\Nat the end of my sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.95,0:05:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything's still the same,\Nno cure for the illness.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.75,0:05:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prison had really broken me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.38,0:05:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean it's a system which makes\Nyou violent, which changes you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.17,0:05:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am 28 when I finish my sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.96,0:05:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I relapse. I go back\Nto guns, and to hold-ups.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.04,0:06:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am in a very violent world;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.21,0:06:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get caught in 94.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.42,0:06:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that I will go down for years,\Nand that I will die in prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.21,0:06:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because I know\Nit's the end for me, I go for broke.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.54,0:06:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,9 October 1994, the anniversary\Nof the abolition of the death penalty,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.38,0:06:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I chose this date to escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.17,0:06:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get some weapons smuggled into prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.33,0:06:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I take some hostages,\Nand I manage to get out.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.58,0:06:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went on a violent rampage.\Nwith armed robberies, hold-ups.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.46,0:06:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, in 95, I get caught\Nby the serious crime squad,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.22,0:06:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they incarcerate me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.96,0:06:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I end up in solitary confinement.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.17,0:06:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I have become dangerous\Nand a threat to society.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.71,0:06:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's true.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.50,0:06:58.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five years in solitary confinement,\Nseeing no-one, for all those years.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.75,0:07:00.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Complete isolation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.38,0:07:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To survive in isolation,\Nthe only solution,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.58,0:07:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as there is nothing else, is to read.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.50,0:07:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I discovered literature.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.13,0:07:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to read, and I found\Nin the words, a way of traveling
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.63,0:07:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of discovering the world,\Nof which I had been deprived.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.54,0:07:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The strength of the words\Nwas something powerful,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.75,0:07:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which could take me somewhere,\Nto escape, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.25,0:07:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After these years of isolation,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.59,0:07:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 2000, 1995-2000,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.92,0:07:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am finally released and I'm transferred\Nto La Santé detention center.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.08,0:07:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I am there I meet people,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.38,0:07:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I touch them, to see\Nif they are really human.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.50,0:07:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start living again,\Nand I enroll on some courses.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.12,0:08:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teachers come to the prison.\NThere is a university, Paris VII.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.04,0:08:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a section called\Nthe Section for Detainee Students,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.56,0:08:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is for prisoners.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.88,0:08:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there, I come across a teacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.79,0:08:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a philosophy teacher\Ncalled François Chouquet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.17,0:08:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We talk, and he tells me that words
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.38,0:08:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are more powerful than weapons.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.04,0:08:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously I laughed, in the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.60,0:08:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.21,0:08:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is very nice, but well...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.00,0:08:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I continue studying,\NI started to write a little,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.12,0:08:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he made me read\NTolstoy, Céline, Camus,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.79,0:08:51.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In Remembrance of things past,"\Nas if that was all I had to do;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.46,0:08:55.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he gave me something,\Nit was really a treasure.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.29,0:09:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, I started to write,\Nand I showed him my first script.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.83,0:09:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He encouraged me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.46,0:09:05.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At last, I belonged somewhere in society,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.71,0:09:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I existed for someone,\Nsomeone read my work.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.42,0:09:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I belonged.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.00,0:09:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2002, I am finally sentenced,\Nand I get 30 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.59,0:09:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,30 years is a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.98,0:09:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.33,0:09:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enough to read three libraries,\NFrançois Mitterand.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.33,0:09:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get 30 years, 30 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.04,0:09:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To tell you the truth:\Nwhen I got the sentence,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.63,0:09:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was transferred straight away\Nto a high security prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.92,0:09:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I tried to escape once more.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.71,0:09:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.88,0:09:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got two more years,\Nbut it was a gamble.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.42,0:09:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because I couldn't bear\Nto be in this prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.33,0:09:54.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started riots, I set fire\Nto Clairvaux, it was terrible.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.50,0:10:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was hard to accept\Nthis denial of freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.13,0:10:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By then, I had already done\Nabout 20 years in prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.96,0:10:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, in 2006, I said to myself
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.21,0:10:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was my own harmful thinking\Nfrom which I had to escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.21,0:10:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to become someone else,\NI had had enough of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.50,0:10:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2006, I end up in Poissy prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.25,0:10:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there, I create the first prison blog
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.54,0:10:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a detainee, in the Nouvel Observateur.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.96,0:10:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.96,0:10:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, everyone has the Internet,\Nbut it was me who created the first.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.75,0:10:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my column I described prison life,\Neverything which I stood for,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.75,0:10:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to fight against a system,\Nwhich is destroying us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.63,0:10:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also the absurdity of this system.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.96,0:10:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And other articles:\Nthe disabled in prison, etc.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.54,0:11:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously, the prison authorities were\Nagainst it since it was against the rules.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.96,0:11:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any communication was forbidden,\Nunless it was censored first.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.88,0:11:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this day, they don't know how I did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.96,0:11:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For four years, I got my articles on\Nthe Internet, without them knowing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.50,0:11:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also met Fabien Marceau, at a concert.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.04,0:11:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He comes with his crutch.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.42,0:11:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fabien Marceau, sorry,\NI mean Grand Corp Malade.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.79,0:11:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like the fact that because of his words,\Nbecause of his Slam a disabled person,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.75,0:11:35.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could stand up and practice his art.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.54,0:11:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you could say that the power\Nof his words created this miracle.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.21,0:11:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No need to go to Lourdes,\Nhe did it with Slam,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.63,0:11:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he managed to make a career of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.88,0:11:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We became mates, very friendly.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.25,0:11:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me too, writing enabled me,\Nthanks to my blog,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.44,0:11:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to publish my first book.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.63,0:11:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was no longer dangerous, I was a writer.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.08,0:12:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a freelance one,\Nfor the Nouvel Observateur.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.50,0:12:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prison authorities,\Nlooked at me differently.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.33,0:12:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Something strange is happening there."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.96,0:12:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He must be planning another escape."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.33,0:12:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.58,0:12:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I promise you it's true.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.50,0:12:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can tell you that they took\Nmy computer, they confiscated it,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.79,0:12:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passed it to CLIS,\Nto see if I had access, etc.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.46,0:12:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prison governor came\Nto ask me, "Is it really you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.21,0:12:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, it's a lunatic who pretends\Nto be me, who writes this stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.92,0:12:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I promise you."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.75,0:12:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.03,0:12:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.60,0:12:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.67,0:12:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was through one of my books\Nthat I met a young student.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.17,0:12:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We fell in love; with writing,\Nanything is possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.96,0:12:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We fell in love,\Nand after a few months, we decided,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.12,0:12:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a "visiting-hours" baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.96,0:12:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because that's also\Npart of being human.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.08,0:13:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we made a baby during visiting hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.63,0:13:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in March 2008,\Nmy little girl was born.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.32,0:13:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.42,0:13:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two days after the birth,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.54,0:13:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- because I didn't go\Nstraight away, I couldn't -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.54,0:13:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in the maternity ward.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.46,0:13:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A criminal like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.33,0:13:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I end up in the maternity ward,\Nand I go to see my baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.29,0:13:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They took off my handcuffs.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.17,0:13:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a window,\Nand I had a good look, but...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.00,0:13:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.25,0:13:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes it's stronger\Nthan us, but anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.46,0:13:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took my daughter in my arms
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.04,0:13:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.21,0:14:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We called her Tilelli.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.79,0:14:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tilelli means freedom in Kabyle,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.17,0:14:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it was her who managed\Nto get me out of prison, after 20 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.88,0:14:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of that is to tell you,\Nthat I filed a case for parole.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.92,0:14:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took 2-3 years, a rock-solid case,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.88,0:14:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was a father,\NI had responsibilities,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.00,0:14:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at last the sentencing judge,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.67,0:14:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeing that I had already\Ndone 25 years in prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.29,0:14:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said, "He must be released,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.08,0:14:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he is a journalist, and a father,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.08,0:14:37.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he has become this, he has become that."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.17,0:14:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I managed to get my university\Nqualification, from Paris VII.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.92,0:14:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.67,0:14:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that was to tell you that today,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.96,0:14:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they think that serial offenders\Nshould be marginalized
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.38,0:15:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they must take a hard line,\Nand that they shouldn't be let out.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.83,0:15:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have proved the opposite.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.04,0:15:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even with my background, it's possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.50,0:15:10.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A return to real life is possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.92,0:15:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is possible,\Nthanks to people and goodwill.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.50,0:15:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And finally, in all dictatorships
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.75,0:15:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first thing \Nwhich goes away is culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.50,0:15:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.58,0:15:31.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ignorance should even be seen\Nas a crime against humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.21,0:15:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is through culture,\Nthat I managed to pull through,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.79,0:15:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through reading; and with teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.88,0:15:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must encourage this sort of thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.00,0:15:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think back to Chouquet's quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.54,0:15:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who said that the pen\Nwas mightier than the sword.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.38,0:15:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is because of the pen\Nthat my greatest escape succeeded.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.88,0:15:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.83,0:15:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)