Since the beginning of the drama that is playing out in Gironde where the region is facing terrible fires, Laure Manaudou and Jérémy Frérot have been the first witnesses. Every day, they report on the worsening situation and salute the work of the firefighters. But, as revealed The Parisian Tuesday, July 19, they are now victims.
Interviewed Tuesday noon by the daily, Jérémy Frérot, who lives near the Arcachon basin which has been burning for a week, has indeed let it be known that he and his wife Laure Manaudou had to flee. “Yesterday, from the path leading to my house, I saw the flames of the forest, it was getting bigger and that night, we had to evacuate, there was too much smoke, it was unbearablehe says, still shocked. It was coming into the house, impossible to fall asleep, we were afraid of getting intoxicated and never waking up“, said the singer.
Of course, the couple wanted to protect their children, Manon (12 years old) born from the past relationship between the swimmer and Frédérick Bousquet, Lou (4 years old) and another one-year-old boy whose first name is unknown. “We have three children with Laure and we didn’t want anyone to wake us up at 4 in the morning. So we took precaution. Then the mayor then asked the whole area to evacuate“, said Jérémy Frérot.
The artist who has firefighter friends who fight in the field is a man “in a state of shock“As the newspaper declares. Ecologist at heart, during the interview he shared his dismay in the face of climatosceptics: “I’ve been trying to raise awareness about global warming for a while now and some have already answered me: ‘It’s very nice, but we have no proof, nothing is concrete.’ The fact of throwing away your plastic straw and saying that it goes into a turtle’s body, we don’t see it. There, global warming, we take it in the face. Yesterday, we felt 50 ° C as temperature, and it was officially 43 ° C, it is the historical record of the city, it was untenable in the south of the Arcachon basin. It’s very concrete now.”
Originally from Gironde, the father of the family had never experienced such a tragedy, nor his parents and grandparents for that matter. It is now with a heavy heart that he fears that what is currently playing out in Gironde will happen regularly in the future.