18 years old, alone and on the street (People 2023, by Klaus Petrus) - Swiss Press Award

18 years old, alone and on the street

Klaus Petrus

The beatings from her mother since she was a small child, the first bouts of depression at 13, break-ins, tantrums, six long years in a home before Naomi, now 18, ran away, living here and there, often on the street, on a bench, or in the bushes near a lake. An isolated case? No, 18 percent of homeless people in Switzerland are between 16 and 25 years old.