The environmental movement Last renovation organized a new blockage this Thursday in Paris.
Several activists blocked part of rue de Bercy, in the 12th arrondissement, from 9:45 a.m.
This action takes place on the occasion of the Day against energy poverty, while the objective of this organization is precisely to facilitate the renovation of housing, in particular thermal sieves, by 2040. The choice of rue de Bercy is not insignificant.
It runs along the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
The activists are thus trying to challenge the government in order to obtain credits.
A similar action was also organized in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne).
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9:45 am.
Blocking access to the Ministry of Economy and Finance to support the 12 million fuel-poor people in France.
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— Last Renovation (@derniere_renov) November 24, 2022
"Energy poverty kills, guilty government", was it written on a banner.
“France has more than 5 million thermal colanders on its territory.
This scourge of poor housing condemns a large part of the population to having to pay indecent energy bills and to being cold in winter.
Energy poverty is in housing with humidity, mold and poor ventilation.
These degraded living conditions cause or aggravate many respiratory diseases and cause more than 2,200 deaths each year, ”highlights Last renovation.
Energy bills burned
Along with the blockade, people gathered near the entrance to the ministry.
They burned energy bills.
The environmental group highlights the fact that the question is no longer whether people want to pay their bill but that more and more people are financially unable to do so.
People in fuel poverty are burning their bills.
In a context of painful inflation, this symbolic action aims to alert the government to the worrying situation of the 12 million energy precarious in France. # Precariteenergetique pic.twitter.com/F9YFdzcain
— Last Renovation (@derniere_renov) November 24, 2022
Gabriel Mazzolini, spokesperson for the environmental protection association Les Amis de la Terre, explains that “if we want to renovate 700,000 additional homes per year, that's 5 billion more per year.
The government agrees to do the renovation, the opposition too.
What is missing ?
At the microphone of the CLPRESS press agency, he recalls that France implemented the principle of "whatever the cost" at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and is surprised that credits are not released. easier.
Returning to the staging with the burned invoices, he explains that “with the term
thermal sieve
it is sometimes difficult to see what is behind.
Behind it are lives.
We will not be able to move forward with a tariff shield.
We need long-term solutions.
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Abundant in this sense, Maïder Olivier, spokesperson for the Alternatiba Paris association explained on the spot that “we want money for the renovation of the thermal colanders.
By burning the invoices, we want to show that the violence is not in this gesture but in the amount of these.
We also want to denounce the inaction of the government on which we want to put pressure”.
She promises new blocking operations in the coming days.
