The mayor of Poses, in the Eure, Georgio Loiseau, begins this Monday, May 29 a hunger strike in front of the administrative city of Evreux, learned France Bleu Normandie. The elected official wants to warn about the management of disabilities in France. No structure can accommodate in September his 12-year-old son, Elyes, who has autistic disorders.
Georgio Loiseau says he regrets and deplores this hunger strike but “today, it is only by making noise that we are heard“.”We have no right to let families die like that“, testifies the one who wrote to the deputies, to the senators, to the presidents of the Council of the Eure and Seine-Maritime departments, to the president of the National Assembly or even to the president of the Senate. “I will only stop my movement when we also take care of all the children who are without solution“, he indicates.
Up to six years of waiting for a place in a medical-educational institute
“There is no place in a medical-educational instituteis moved Georgio Loiseau, we announce delays of two, three, four, up to six years to obtain a place“. According to the mayor of the village of Poses, with a population of 1,200, an inclusive school aimed at ensuring quality education for all pupils from kindergarten to high school by taking into account their singularities and their particular educational needs, constitutes of the “powder in the eyes“.
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He invokes “the right to education up to the age of sixteen“for his son and would like that”this obligation is complied with“. The only solution for the moment is for his son to continue his studies at home, via the Cned (National Center for Distance Education).
An unthinkable situation for Elyes’ father, a pharmaceutical industry executive, and his mother, a trader, ready to accept a hybrid solution. “It could be a time in school, a time in institution, we have to reinvent this system“, suggests Georgio Loiseau, because “Elyes needs to be with other children who are like him or not“.