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In the Cotentin, the brightening of the Orthodox Easter in the laborious integration of Ukrainians

4/24/2022, 8:27:26 PM


REPORT - Life between these refugees and the Norman volunteers who brought them back from Poland is sometimes a source of disappointment.

Quettehou (Channel)

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The children have one foot in front of the other, ready to shoot off to pick up the little eggs spotted under the wild hyacinths, the big ones wedged on the swings.

The starting signal will be given in a minute.

Moved, Jean-Jacques Boulmont, who receives in the garden of his house in Quettehou (Manche) is still to wish “

welcome to all

”.

This pensioner with white mustaches is one of the volunteers who responded to

the "call of March 6

".

That day, Gilles Auger, a strong guy with a smooth skull, director of a shipyard, posted a call for donations on Facebook.

"

I was planning to take a truck and leave alone to bring food and medicine to the Polish border...

".

His wife discouraged him from traveling alone the 3800 km round trip that separates Warsaw from the Cotentin.

So he appealed to goodwill: who wanted to take the road by his side?

Thirteen men and women responded and eight trucks left on March 11.

In Warsaw…

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