“How many people slept outside last night, do you know?
» It's a little after 7:50 a.m. this Tuesday, January 30, 2018. In the morning of France Inter, Léa Salamé is on the Julien Denormandie grill.
The journalist has just reminded him of the promise made by Emmanuel Macron in the summer of 2017 to no longer see anyone sleeping outside “by the end of the year”.
“It’s about fifty isolated men in Île-de-France, to be very precise,” retorts without blinking the man who was then Secretary of State to the Minister of Territorial Cohesion.
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But very quickly, his declaration caused coughs from all sides.
Médecins du monde mentions, in particular, “a largely underestimated figure” and “a denial of reality”.
A few weeks later, the City of Paris announced a count... At least 70 times higher in inner Paris alone.
On the night of February 15 to 16, 2018, around 2,000 volunteers roamed the streets of the capital, metro stations and even parks to anonymously identify homeless people.
In total, 3,600 homeless people are counted.
The town hall has just organized the very first French Solidarity Night.
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