VS’is the new trendy place in Angers (Maine-et-Loire), a large designer warehouse that has a bar, taco stand, skatepark, video games room and exceptionally a boxing ring. That evening, among a hundred spectators, two young people, leaning on the bar, commented on the match which was taking place before their eyes.
Artem, 17, burgundy bomber jackets, sneakers and crew-cut hair, practices this combat sport in his country, Ukraine. He has just arrived in the capital of Anjou with Andreï, 17, black bomber jackets, sneakers and brush hair, too. The two friends, from Lutsk (a city of 200,000 inhabitants in the northwest of the country), made the trip alone from the Polish border through Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium before landing in Lille then to Angers, where I…