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Even if there were enough places, not all of the refugee minors with psychological scars are ready to confront their issues./“I’m not crazy!”/“Lots of young people are very aggressive.”/“Some think that their trauma is totally normal.”/“I steal—it’s my job to!”/“Every adolescent is registered at a sports club: the majority choose football, but I find that combat sports helps to calm them down more.”/“We took groups of young people to spend a few days at a farm. The Egyptians, for example, were all the children of farmers, and it reminded them of home …”/“Different administrations throw the ball back into each other’s courts. It’s not really their priority to fret about psychological problems.”/Between 2014 and 2016, there was an influx of unaccompanied minors, so the towns came up with urgent solutions to house them, in particular by taking over sports halls./“We are overwhelmed by the situation … and it’s not going to solve itself.”