“A voluntary and positive discourse”: the life lesson of the disabled sports champion at the prison of Health

They were expecting a workshop “all slammed” on disability with “a guy who victimizes himself”. And yet, the session is supposed to be over for ten minutes and the detainees still do not leave the wheelchairs that were lent to them for the occasion. “Oh, are you planning to come back to the cell like this?” launches a prisoner of Health (Paris XIV), to one of his “colleagues”. Sofyane Mehiaoui is fed up. Usually, this player of the French disabled team, president of the Paris basketball armchair club, rather tells his life to schoolchildren. This Tuesday, for the first time, he is addressing prisoners in this Parisian center.