On Saturday November 6, 2021, a new program of We are live was broadcast on France 2. Personalities from all backgrounds came to defend their opinions and their various projects. Among them, Dominique Farrugia discussed with Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State for People with Disabilities. Director with multiple sclerosis releases book She never left me (ed. Robert Laffont).
The politician immediately recognized a lack of accessibility in France. “Let us open the debate on the disabled. It is not open enough, you know that as well as I do. How many are unemployed, how many cannot work, take the metro …“, launched Dominique Farrugia. Sophie Cluzel then advanced an unemployment rate in “decrease” in people with disabilities. “I don’t deny that we have problems but we are in a dynamic “, she added.
Like many people with disabilities, Dominique Farrugia does not really appreciate the latest awareness campaign, too smooth for his taste in the face of injustices and discrimination experienced on a daily basis. “The anger is there because I live it every day, because it pisses me off, because it pisses me off the life I can have if I don’t have someone helping me down a sidewalk because the sidewalk is too high, if I can’t fit in an elevator because it is too small, because you tell me that all the buses are accessible while all the buses are not, because people don’t even want to push each other because we can’t get in etc. So it’s nice to show off a little tattoo, but pfff … let’s go further“, claimed the filmmaker.
On Saturday, other personalities such as Nora Hamzawi, Léo Walk, Lujipeka, Philippe Francq, Anthony Palou or Eric Giacometti were also present on the set of Léa Salamé – who will lose his accomplice Thomas Sotto in Elysee 2022 – and Laurent Ruquier.