Between 200 and 300 people gathered this Sunday in Liège, Belgium, to pay tribute to a young hairdresser whose suicide has become the symbol in this country of the distress of independents in the face of the pandemic.
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After observing a minute of silence and releasing balloons in front of the station of this Walloon city, the participants in the rally walked to the "
barber shop
" of the young 24-year-old woman, behind a banner "
Neither forgetting nor forgiveness
".
"
Alysson, you are essential,
" shouted one of the participants.
Alysson Jadin, 24, was found dead on Monday, without leaving a written explanation for his gesture, according to the first available elements.
But in his entourage, everyone made the link with the difficulties of his activity caused by the health crisis.
The young woman, whose salon had to close three weeks ago due to confinement, could not bear that her activity was deemed "
non-essential
", according to her relatives.
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Unemployed hairdresser, she opened her business in early August.
"
It's very complicated morally,
" she said on November 10 to the RTL-TVI channel.
The tragedy caused great emotion in Belgium, a country hard hit by the coronavirus, from Prime Minister Alexander De Croo to filmmaker Luc Dardenne.
