I tried to summarize what is currently happening to the homeless in Strasbourg.
- The City of Strasbourg has agreed to develop the project of Don Quixote to build an island for emergency shelter. Certainly it has transformed the original one that was more "green" and which was based on self-build but has nevertheless implemented.
- The surprises of polluted soil on the site chosen Meinau, near highways, delayed the work. Also, the emergency shelter, to be open year Last should be in July 2010.
- March 31, when the end of the winter, the homeless are turned away from emergency shelters without their only alternative will be proposed. The majority of them are places here and there, others go "elsewhere". Remain the most socially vulnerable and those who have dogs. About thirty. These have a vital need for the minimum of social grouping that is trying to preserve their status as Don Quixote does not yet allow it, nor to re-insert, or being alone.
- With the help of Don Quixote, they set up camp on wasteland, road Schirmeck. A chance for the community that men like Alexander and Renaud Engel Glardon manage the situation. They should be thanked and paid for all this work and the time invested. Instead, they are exhausted.
Yet local residents, not only do not complain of the camp but became supportive of Don Quixote by providing that water, that food, which some comfort.
- Last week the City of Strasbourg demand the evacuation but, again, propose an alternative.
- Faced with the refusal to "clear out" of the homeless who do not know where to go, the city assigns to the Tribunal. It is unsuccessful. It returns the next day with the police to a bailiff. Rebelote: court. The city wins the grounds of "property rights"!
- The homeless encampment and fold up in the "baggage" (or rather their necessary survival) and are looking for another site.
They simply ask that we stop the hunt and they are allowed to settle on land for a period up to July, when it announced the delivery of emergency shelter cabins .
This is still not too much to ask, right??
Can we accept this point of despising people which, besides being of citizens are simply human beings?
Moreover, it is in our collective interest to get down to chart the course office until the end of the chain, namely at the level 0 of the social ladder because without it we can create the famous trust among citizens, conscious in the background that nobody is safe from a meltdown, especially with running times of crisis.
For moral support or assistance citizen, contact the leaders of Don Quixote
Renaud Engel 06.28.33.87.73
Alexander Glardon 06.66.41.92.07
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