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Vaccines, taxes, mutilated horses ... The toll-free number, a Swiss army knife in crisis management

2021-09-25T16:43:40.700Z


SURVEY - Since the start of the Macron five-year term, this device, not really new, has been used to deal with all kinds of social problems. How effectively?


0 800 122 500 for school dropouts.

0805 802 804 for victims of incest.

Last week, government authorities again announced the launch of two new hotlines.

The last born in a long line since the start of the five-year term.

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In recent years, the government has indeed inaugurated a series of numbers for various and varied causes.

A number for residents of areas near the Lubrizol factory, owners of mutilated horses, people in need of teleworking support, suffering or suicidal police officers, people disturbed by bedbugs, those who have difficulty to fill out their tax form… A medley that has made the toll-free number an essential part of government action, even a subject of joke on social networks: for each problem, a toll-free number.

In a nutshell, the creation of a toll-free number has become symbolic of a supposed inability to act.

This is how in the spring

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Source: lefigaro

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