Opalima Kupina: Liège episode A Stop Pavilion: On the Soft Underbelly of Europe.

“We work at night, we do what we can. Doubt is our passion, and passion is our assignment.”

What do we see? A deserted, battered office, a studio where someone once tried to shoot videos, apparently for some unknown YouTube channel. Later we learn it belonged to one of the decolonial detectives. His fate is murky, almost mythic. We know only this: once he found himself in Liège, he devoted himself to studying the activities of the Société Anonyme des Tramways d’Odessa, as well as Les Tramways de Palerme.

A few facts from the biography of Detective M.

After a severe frostbite injury (which cost him two toes), he was evacuated from Khmelnytskyi at the end of 2019 to Cairo, and from there moved on to Paris.

By car he made it as far as Bulgaria, where he drank again in a restaurant and began telling strangers that he was heading to Paris on a secret assignment for some unnamed special services.

In Liège, his studio opened on 12 February.

Back then he was always humming:

I get up — I get down
All my world turns around
Who is right? Who is wrong?
I don’t know
I’ve got pain in my heart