Yazid Kherfi, titulaire d’un DESS en ingénierie de la sécurité, a été directeur d’une maison de jeunes puis a travaillé dans l’équipe de Charles Rojzman. Il est aujourd’hui consultant dans un cabinet spécialisé sur l’évolution des métiers et sur les questions sociales.
Yazid Kherfi started out as a young armed robber who later became the director of a youth club with a degree in security engineering.
Since then he has trained policemen, prison guards and social workers and passed on his experience of problem neighborhoods.
In this book, he describes his daily commitment to prevention in urban environments and his “tool”: a travelling mediation truck which he stations at the foot of apartment buildings every evening.
After a turbulent life as a young man which he described in a book written with the sociologist, Véronique Le Goaziou, Repris de justesse (Rehabilitated just in time) (La Découverte/Poche, 2003), Yazid Kherfi was the director of a youth club, then worked as a consultant in an agency specialized in social problems. Today he devotes his time to prevention in urban environments, and disseminating information about his travelling mediation method.
Joséphine Lebard and Bahar Makooi are journalists and the authors of Une année à Clichy. La ville qui rêvait qu’on l’oublie (A year in Clichy. The city that dreamt of being forgotten.) (Stock, 2015).