Lucas (not his real name) is 3 years old. Every night, he sleeps with his mother on cardboard boxes unfolded on the sidewalk in front of the BHV. There is also this family with a newborn baby. They spend their nights in a hall of the Gare de l'Est. Lacking a cozy bed, 4-year-old Anissa ends up succumbing to sleep in the emergency room of the Necker Hospital. "The situation is so atrocious and worse than last year that we are organizing a citizens' rally to demand a jolt from the state," said Sarah Vezzoli, a mother and resident of the <>th arrondissement of Paris and co-founder of the collective Une école un toit.
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