Everyday I pass “la Chibani", a mural by artist Vince on my morning walks. I didn’t know what #Chibani meant. A “Chibani”, literally means “white hair” in Algerian dialect Arabic. From my reading it refers to a Maghrebian immigrant of the first generation, who arrived in France in the early 60s to work. About 235,000 men left Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to come and work in France in construction, industry, agriculture ... Why are they called old men “white hairs” if they arrived in France when they were young? Simply because at the time of their retirement, these men decided not to return to live in their country of origin and to stay in France. The model was Mohand Dendoune, now passed. It is “with this mural, my father is eternal”, stated his son, the director and writer Nadir Dendoune. “And through him, it is to all the chibanis that we pay tribute, all the other dads who have shown courage in leaving their country, people that we have very little put forward ... This mural is for all of them, it no longer belongs to us. “ How did this father of ten children, who landed in France in 1950 from his native Kabylia, end up being portrayed on a building on the rue de la Tour, in Malakoff? It originally was a photo taken by Jérôme Bonnet for Liberation. It won the 3rd World Press Prize in 2010. The suburban #Paris town of #Malakoff gave the task of painting the building to the street artist Vince. The photo came into his mind. "Vince, who is more than a friend, asked me if he could use my father's portrait," says Nadir Dendoune. I first asked the family what they thought about it ... These are people who do not spontaneously put themselves forward, who have been in the shadows, who have been made invisible. " Nadir Dendoune, on the contrary, never ceases to want to tell "this very French story" than that of his parents who came from Algeria to "rebuild France". “My father worked at the Citroën factory in Saint-Ouen before becoming a gardener at the Montmorency hospital, says the author. With my mother, they settled in the Maurice-Thorez city, on the Île-Saint-Denis. There, they found a bit of the village spirit of Algeria (at Malakoff) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBijwRoKRi8/?igshid=aypp6vhpvw7m