A 50-year-old man, on the street for around twenty years, died on January 2 in hospital in Paris. Another man, aged 60 and on the streets for 10 years, died on January 9 in the capital.
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She calls on the government to “take the measure of the emergency”. The organization Médecins du Monde (MDM) was alarmed by a “clear degradation” of the situation of people on the street, Tuesday January 16, reporting at least two homeless people dead in Paris at the beginning of January. A 50-year-old man, who had been on the street for around twenty years, died on January 2 in hospital. Another man, aged 60 and on the street for 10 years, died on January 9 at Place de la République.
“The streets kill, the streets make people sick, we are issuing an alert so that these deaths stop, it is a political choice to leave people on the streets”denounced Guillemette Soucachet, coordinator of the “No health without roof” program at Médecins du Monde, to AFP. “There is really a very clear deterioration in the situation”she adds. “All this worries us enormously, particularly in the context of immigration law.” This, in particular by restricting the payment of social benefits for foreigners, risks leading “more people still on the streets”, fears Guillemette Soucachet. For the coordinator, “we are really on a downward slope.”
“We really have the feeling that the government absolutely does not understand the urgency of the situation”, insists Guillemette Soucachet, deploring among other things the absence of appointment at this stage of Minister of Housing, within the Attal government. The Prime Minister, questioned Tuesday in the National Assembly on the issue of homelessness, highlighted “the 550,000 people released from homelessness”, “doubling” of the emergency accommodation park carried “at 200,000 places”, and the recent release of an additional 120 million euros in response to the extreme cold.
