Stéphane Ravacley, baker from Besançon on hunger strike for more than a week to protest against the expulsion of his Guinean apprentice, was uneasy on Tuesday and was taken to the emergency room, he said in the press .
He was "taken care of shortly before 9 am by the firefighters who took him to the Besançon CHU", confirmed the prefecture of Doubs.
"I'm very tired, but I'm fine," he said in the early afternoon while he was still in the emergency room.
“I felt uneasy in my car, in front of the bakery, coming back from delivery,” explained the 50-year-old artisan whose business is located in downtown Besançon.
“At the beginning, nobody saw me, I stayed a quarter of an hour in the cold.
When the firefighters arrived, I was hypothermic, ”said the man who has been fighting for his apprentice for several weeks.
The doctor who examined him concluded that he was "deficient in a lot of things," said Ravacley who received a "vitamin infusion".
He thinks of going home "in the coming hours".
The bisontin baker now eats only broth and has lost about eight kilograms since the start of his hunger strike.
A nurse visits him every two days.
Does he plan to end his hunger strike?
“No, I continue.
It's a fight, ”says the man, determined to fight to keep Laye Fodé Traoré, 18, at his side, whose serious and diligent work he praises.
Refusal of the prefecture to issue a residence permit
His former apprentice had to interrupt his training.
Supported in France as an isolated minor, he has been covered since his majority by an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) issued by the prefecture of Haute-Saône, the department where he resides.
The young Guinean seized the administrative court of Besançon to legally challenge this OQTF and the refusal of the prefecture to issue him a residence permit.
His request will be considered on January 26.
According to his lawyer, the prefecture considers that Mr. Traoré's identity documents are not authentic.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the Embassy of Guinea in Paris has just legalized the identity documents provided by Laye Fodé Traoré.
Raphaël Glucksmann, Omar Sy, Leïla Slimani, Nicolas Hulot, Edgar Morin, Laurent Berger, Marion Cotillard and several EELV mayors on Monday called on the President of the Republic to "help the Besançon baker on hunger strike!"
», In a column signed in the Nouvel Observateur.
The mayor of Besançon, Anne Vignot (EELV), asked in a letter sent to the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin last week to abandon "this administrative vision which consists of welcoming, protecting, training for, on the first day of the majority, reject and expel ”.
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The petition in favor of Laye Fodé Traoré, launched by Mr. Ravacley, had collected Tuesday more than 220,000 signatures.
The craftsman also set up a Facebook page on Monday to centralize the testimonies of all employers and apprentices facing the same problem as him, many according to him.