Five major cities sue the state over its management of emergency accommodation. Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon and Rennes denounce the state's shortcomings and call for the overhaul of an “inadequate, insufficient, ineffective and absolutely unworthy system” Paris is not joining this new approach.
“We, mayors of large cities, are reaching the end of our communities' capacities to compensate for the deficiencies in State responsibility,” they are alarmed. ‘Human lives are at stake, like the future of thousands of children,’ added Pierre Hurmic from Bordeux.