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In Paris, 400 schoolchildren sleep on the streets every night: about a hundred people demonstrated

2023-11-20T20:07:36.553Z

Highlights: About a hundred people demonstrated in front of the eighteenth-century town hall in Paris. Residents and elected officials called on the State on this International Law Day. "The situation is so atrocious and worse than last year," said Sarah Vezzoli, a mother and resident of the <>th arrondissement of Paris. "We are organizing a citizens' rally to demand a jolt from the state," said co-founder of the collective Une école un toit.


These residents and elected officials came under the windows of the eighteenth-century town hall and called on the State on this International Law Day


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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Source: leparis

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