After 20 years in the air force, she opened her shoemaking business… in a fire truck in Saint-Martin-de-Crau

A fire truck is installed at the side of the road, not far from a traffic light on Place François-Mitterrand. In case you don’t see the “Shoddy” sign hanging at the back, a quick look inside indicates that it is no longer an emergency vehicle: no oxygen bottle, stretcher or dressing box, but a bench, a press and sewing machine.

Tools carefully chosen by the occupant of the premises, the shoemaker Magali. “I had to make a choice in the machines, to optimize the space.“

The choice of homelessness and freedom

This fire truck, recovered from Leboncoin, became the business of this self-employed woman living in Entresens. Last February, she alternated between Lançon-de-Provence and Saint-Martin. “It was good, I saw different people, there were two atmospheres.” However the business did not prosper in Lançon, the manager then made the choice, last October, to concentrate her services in this town on the outskirts of Arles. A place “vivant“commercially speaking, where”people love their city and consume there“, insists this woman with thick brown hair.