It was the start of a victory for a baker from Ain.
The Ain prefecture will carry out a "rapid review" of the case of Mamadou Yaya Bah, a young Guinean refugee threatened with deportation for whom Patricia Hyvernat, a baker wishing to train him in an apprenticeship, had been on hunger strike for two weeks. .
“Ms. Hyvernat formalized a promise of employment with the services of the Direccte (regional management of companies, competition, consumption, labor and employment, Editor's note) last Friday.
This is an essential document proving the good professional integration of Mr. Bah ”, indicated the prefecture of Ain.
"I have the hope that everything will work out," says the craftswoman living with her husband in La-Chapelle-du-Châtelard, a village of some 390 souls.
The couple and their future apprentice will be received at the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse on March 3 to submit a new application for a residence permit.
"I'm going to stop my hunger strike," continues the one who only ate tea, coffee, vegetable broth and fruit juice and was considering hospitalization after having lost 7 kilos since February 9.
Mamadou Yaya Bah, 20, could start his bakery training in the coming weeks at the neighboring CFA of Ambérieux-en-Bugey, according to Ms. Hyvernat, once a receipt for a residence permit application has been obtained.
“It would have been much harder for me to see him go back to his country than to go on a hunger strike.
This is the only way I have found to be heard, ”explains the fifty-something about the young man, who according to her arrived in France at the age of 16 after leaving his native Guinea and to have been imprisoned in Libya.
A method that works
This victorious approach echoes the fight of Stéphane Ravacley, a baker from Doubs, who at the end of another well-publicized hunger strike at the beginning of the year had prevented the expulsion of Laye Fodé Traoré, his young Guinean apprentice.
Mr. Ravacley had visited Mrs. Hyvernat last week to support her and share her experience.
In La-Chapelle-du-Châtelard, bakers who wish to retire in three years and pass their business on to their future apprentice have found a vocation in this ordeal.
“We want to create a training center for young migrants who have not attended school in the fields of cooking, baking or pastry making and providing them with psychological support.
Justifying a training course would then allow them to integrate, ”explains the boulangère.te