Residents from the Adjame village in Ivory Coast's Abidjan search through rubble for their belongings as excavators demolish homes to make way for a new road.
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00:00They entered the court, they smashed the doors, smashed the doors, smashed the doors, smashed
00:29the doors, they took all my things, my jewelry, my clothes, everything is gone, my child's
00:35phone, the computer, everything, everything is gone.
00:40I don't know if they came to break or to throw us out.
00:45So that's it, we are in desolation.
00:48We don't do that.
00:50We don't do that.
00:55Now they came to break.
00:57They asked us where we were going, where we were sleeping.
01:01That's all they asked us, where we were sleeping.
01:04We didn't sleep in the street.
01:06We didn't sleep in the street.
01:08We thought they were going to take a little bit of what they asked for.
01:14But to our surprise, they asked for more than we thought.
01:18You see, right?
01:20It's really catastrophic.
01:22It's catastrophic, we can't say everything.
01:24But we lost a lot of things.