Bardhyl Dobroshi likes to use irony: “We live in a shithole so we might as well keep busy,” he jokes, pushing open the metal door of an abandoned gymnasium in the center of Mitrovica, a few kilometers from the border with Serbia. The thirty-year-old, whose name refers to an ancient Illyrian king, has a well-groomed beard and a cheeky verb. “When we got this place back, it was dirty and squatted by marginalized people. We cleaned and scrubbed everything ourselves. » The young people of the NGO Futja Ngyrë, which he created almost ten years ago, transformed the place into a joyful mess covered with colorful frescoes, where musical instruments, recording equipment, stencils, a dismembered video drone…
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