Alfortville: the shopping center soon to be razed, the last traders in the process of expropriation

Its horizon: metal palisades placed in front of its windows. Its future, closer and closer: a departure from the Grand Ensemble shopping center, located in the south of Alfortville. At the bottom of his business, where fewer and fewer customers take advantage of his know-how in shoemaking, locksmithing and alterations of all kinds, Kabo Lim looks gray. “Since they put the iron barriers everywhere, people think that I am closed, and I feel like I am in prison”, explains the one who had to put up signs to inform the skinny customer base.