Concrete blocks were placed in front of the premises of 115 in Toulouse. Homeless people used to camp there for lack of anything better.

Concrete blocks have been installed in front of the premises of 115, at 66 bis avenue Etienne Billières, a stone’s throw from the Patte d’oie metro station in Toulouse. What offend François Piquemal who was part of the ranks of the association Droit au logement for ten years. ” Shame. In Toulouse, the municipality had concrete blocks “Toulouse en vert” installed in front of the 115 to prevent homeless people from being able to sleep there, ”the activist said on his social networks on Monday, December 27.

Shame: to #Toulouse the municipality had concrete blocks “Toulouse en vert” installed in front of the 115 to prevent the homeless from being able to sleep there.

Candidate Mr Moudenc therefore called to #picsdor of the @Abbe_Pierre for the most cynical anti-homeless device pic.twitter.com/P7dzkhNIjx

– François Piquemal (@FraPiquemal) December 27, 2021

Contacted by Le Journal Toulousain, he indicates that “it is local residents who alerted (him) to this installation three weeks ago, because this device poses problems of passage, in particular for people in wheelchairs”. But he hasn’t found it recently. “What is new is not the gray blocks which have been there for a long time, it is the ‘Toulouse in green’ blocks”, he explains. “There were families camping there for lack of anything better.

“I found that we were at the height of cynicism,” says François Piquemal, who is part of the municipal opposition with the AMC group. “Unfortunately, Toulouse has been used for years of this kind of practice. It is part of a whole arsenal. It’s ultra-cinematic and it doesn’t solve the problem at all. “We are in the winter period. People are more sensitive to housing issues. And the only response from the municipality is that when there are other solutions, ”he regrets.

The other solutions, François Piquemal evokes them on his social networks : “The municipality could: regulate rents, build social housing for the most precarious, requisition among the 24,000 housing units and 220,000 square meters of vacant offices.

Contacted by Le Journal Toulousain, Toulouse city hall has not yet responded to our requests.