Could the place where the law was voted requiring public administrations to be accessible to all be outlawed? Since Sunday, the question has arisen seriously, two deputies being concerned. The first, José Beaurain, piano tuner in the Aisne, has just become, at the age of 50, the first blind deputy of the Fifth Republic, with the desire to “open people’s eyes” to disability. The RN deputy says he found a lot of “benevolence” in his party, but he “suffered from ignorance of disability”. Hand on the shoulder of his assistant, José Beaurain should still be able to sit without problem.
Which will not be the case for Sébastien Peytavie. In a wheelchair since the age of three, the deputy Nupes de Dordogne can go through ramps and detours to circulate in the Assembly. But the hemicycle is almost forbidden to him. Only the ground floor, where the ministers sit, is accessible. Work has been launched urgently to allow it to sit.