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Laurent is a merchant. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, he has been going back and forth to Ukraine to deliver medicines and evacuate refugees who have bases in France. Meet.
“We are in front of the TV, we say to ourselves: “I would do something…”” Brut met Laurent Champenois, a French merchant who helps Ukrainians flee their country at war. The day we met Laurent, we attended the reunion of three families. “We leave to help there and then when we come back, we try to evacuate people from the war zones so that they can find their families here, in France.“, he explains. It all started on a Sunday evening, while he was watching television. That day, it was the click: he decided to take his minibus and make the round trip to Ukraine for “try to bring his stone to the building.” “You see people arriving with babies in their arms, you see people arriving with nothing, they have suitcases, they are panicked“, breathes Laurent.
In addition to helping people flee the war, Laurent brings in convoys of medicine, clothing and other necessities. “When things go wrong somewhere and we’re there in front of the TV like that, we say to ourselves : “I would do something.” But there are times when you can’t. There, you can“, believes Laurent.