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Near Nantes, a farm to reintegrate prisoners

2022-06-16T15:16:06.112Z


This farm managed by Emmaüs harvests its first vegetables and is slowly being accepted, after a suspicious reception.


Saint-Gildas-des-Bois

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On the edges of the access road, the signs

"No to prisoners"

now disappear under the tall grass.

A sign that the tension with some residents has subsided.

That morning, in the heat of the greenhouses of the Ker Madeleine farm, six workers quietly pick up the vegetables, guided by an agricultural supervisor.

Three are detainees, who live on site, three others precarious people in integration, who come for the day.

We also meet five volunteers, who help in the fields or in the kitchen.

Without forgetting a couple of Ukrainian refugees, hosted for a time.

This vast renovated farmhouse opened last September.

Around, 40 hectares of bocage, in Saint-Gildas-des-Bois (Loire-Atlantique), between Nantes and Vannes.

“I am often taken for a former prisoner!”

, smiles Pierre-Olivier, co-director of the association Sources d'Envol, member of the Emmaüs movement, which manages

"this large roommate, but much more constrained".

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Source: lefigaro

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