“Emmanuel Macron celebrates Abbé Pierre’s appeal in favor of the homeless in the winter of 1954”

2024-01-21 17:41:30

Abbé Pierre takes stock of action in favor of the homeless during a press conference on February 5, 1954, in Paris. AGIP/Bridgeman Images

Time.news – The number of homeless people has doubled in ten years due to the housing crisis.

Without naming him, Emmanuel Macron wanted to pay tribute to Abbé Pierre, seventy years after the famous appeal for the homeless. “It’s cold right now. Emergency accommodation has increased to 200,000 places today; when I was elected, we had 93,000 places, if that isn’t fair! 60% of this effort is made for women and men who are awaiting regularization or in an irregular situation.the Head of State justified himself in his press conference on January 16.

These vibrant remarks aim first of all to remind us that, in the face of great distress, charity has no “national preference”, a way of distancing itself from the RN and Marine Le Pen. Emmanuel Macron thus echoes Abbé Pierre’s rant in the winter of 1954. “My friends, help… A woman has just frozen to death, last night at 3 o’clock, on the sidewalk of Boulevard de Sébastopol, clutching the paper with which, the day before yesterday, she had been expelled.” had implored the…

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