An elliptical trainer, a plant, garlands that adorn a makeshift tent... Have you ever noticed, in the middle of a Parisian street, these homeless shelters decorated like small living rooms? This is the case of Farid who tried to humanize his refuge and whom we met. For 5 years, this former employee of Le Monde has been living in a passage of Montmartre (eighteenth arr.), under a tent placed on pallets.
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"I got there, I had a mattress," he recalls. "A cardboard, even," adds the man who, after six months, sold books to buy a tent and set it up. "As I love art, with everything I find, I build," says Farid, listing the origin of the objects that decorate his shelter, from a Tibetan flag to squares of fake lawn. After the publication of this video on social networks, a fundraiser was created, to "finance everything Farid needs to live".