“This sport saved me and got me off drugs”: pétanque, this unexpected therapy

Before she was nicknamed “La Dangereuse”, Dios hardly ever left her room. His only moments outside the Hélianthe, this accommodation center located in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, came down to his imperatives at the hospital. Now, his intimidating black eyes and deceptively stern demeanor make more than one laugh. Twice a week, this 43-year-old woman plays petanque and breathes.