The collective “The dead in the street” announces that 587 people died in 2020 in France including 65 in Occitanie. Their average age was 48 years old.
Gender, age, city. A first name. Sometimes not. The collective “The dead in the street” published this Wednesday, October 27 the list of homeless people who died in the street. A non-exhaustive list resulting from reports collected by the collective. In 2020, in France, 587 people were killed in the streets.
“Their death is a scandal which must challenge everyone on a personal and collective level”, indicates the collective “The dead in the street”. According to its census, 65 homeless people died in the streets in Occitanie and Lot-et-Garonne in 2020
65 dead in the streets of Occitanie
- January: a 76-year-old man in Toulouse, a 52-year-old man in Toulouse, a 61-year-old woman in Perpignan.
- February: a 34-year-old woman in Castelnau-le-Lez (34), a 62-year-old man in Perpignan, an unidentified person in Occitanie.
- March: a 51-year-old man in Toulouse, a 40-year-old man in Lattes (34), a 66-year-old man in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (12), a 53-year-old man in Amélie-les-Bains (66) .
- April: a 50-year-old man in Sète (34), a woman in Sète (34), a man of around 50 in Agen (47), a 36-year-old man in Montpellier.
- May: a 17-year-old man in Cintegabelle (31), a 51-year-old man in Perpignan, a 28-year-old man in Toulouse, a 65-year-old man in Montpellier, a 46-year-old man in Toulouse, a 47-year-old man in Occitania, a 43-year-old man in Albi, a 35-year-old woman in Perpignan.
- June: a 48-year-old man in Narbonne, a 42-year-old man in Narbonne, a 48-year-old man in Albi, a 52-year-old man in Narbonne, a 37-year-old woman in Narbonne, a 42-year-old man in Perpignan, a 34-year-old woman in Estagel (66), a 57-year-old man in Toulouse, a 49-year-old man in Perpignan.
- July: a 33-year-old man in Toulouse, a 44-year-old man in Toulouse, a 35-year-old woman in Narbonne.
- August: a 58-year-old man in Toulouse, a 61-year-old man in Narbonne, a 60-year-old man in Toulouse, a 69-year-old man in Toulouse, a 38-year-old man in Montpellier.
- September: a 53-year-old man in Toulouse, a 48-year-old man in Toulouse, a 23-year-old man in Toulouse, a 32-year-old man in Brassac (81), a 51-year-old man in Toulouse, a 61-year-old man in Perpignan, a man in Toulouse.
- October: a man in Blagnac (31), a man in Toulouse, a 40-year-old man in Perpignan, a 53-year-old man in Occitanie, a 54-year-old man in Perpignan, a 40-year-old man in Perpignan, a man from 62 years old in Toulouse, a man in Toulouse, a 45-year-old man in Nîmes, a man in Nîmes.
- November: a 47-year-old man in Toulouse, a 30-year-old man in Toulouse, a 53-year-old man in Sète, a 33-year-old man in Pibrac (31), a 48-year-old woman in Toulouse.
- December: a 47-year-old man in Tarbes, a 48-year-old man in Perpignan, a 60-year-old man in Montpellier, a 31-year-old man in Nîmes.
48 years on average
At least one in four people has died of a violent death: assault, accident or suicide. The average age of deaths is 48 years after the collective. In Occitania, a large majority of victims are men in their fifties. The most frequent deaths are recorded in Toulouse, Perpignan and Narbonne.
In 2021, while the year is not over, the collective “Les dans la rue” has already identified 323 dead, age 50 on average. 19 of these victims were wandering in a street in Occitanie.