The “Veyet solidarity” collective mobilized for Gabrieli, a street child suffering from Leukemia
The association of parents of students and teachers of the Jean-Pierre Veyet school located in the 7th art of Lyon opened their school to several families on the street with school children. Among them came Gabrieli who is suffering from leukaemia. He was taken to safety on November 15.
Hi, during the rally in front of the Prefecture organized by the Never Without Roofs Collective and the Croix Rousse Migrants Supporterswe met Lucie Pauze, member of the “Solidarité Veyet” collective, which is made up of around forty parents of pupils and teachers from the Jean-Pierre Veyet elementary school, located in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon.
She announced to us the shelter on November 15 of Gabrieli and his Georgian family in Vezoule. They had been squatting in the school since November 11. Since April, Gabrieli and his family had been sleeping in their car.
Gabrieli has leukemia
A situation all the more scandalous that Gabrieli is suffering from lymphoblastic leukemia.
In an article published on November 15, Progress specified that “as the nights became longer and more open, the collective financed several hotel nights to shelter the family”. “But the source having dried up, the parents of students had no other choice but to invest the school, because Gabrieli’s state of health is not in good shape”.
The article, signed by Romain Ethuin, specified that it is for this reason that “His family left everything to look after him”.
In the columns of the local newspaper, his father indicated that “Two days after our arrival in Lyon, he was treated at the hospital and is following a two-year treatment at the Center Léon-Bérard”. “Our two applications for residence were refused. »
Gabrieli alternated stays at the hospital and at school.
Five families are still squatting the school” Veyet »
Other families squatted at the Veyet school after dark. This is still the case for five families and a new one should arrive on Monday. “We welcome them every evening at 7 p.m., and the next morning at 7:30 a.m., they have to leave school for school to take place and it’s uncomfortable for everyone”explained Lucie Pauze to us, specifying that if the association of parents of pupils mobilized it is because it provided the situation “inadmissible”, so hope to put “pressure on the authorities”.
Yvan a disabled child on the street
Progress also denounced the situation of Misha and Yvan, two Georgian children who slept in their parent’s car. Romain Ethuin, specified that Yvan is “handicapped as a result of a congenital malformation”. Once again, it is for this reason that his parents joined France, but they were not supported by 115, while people with disabilities are supposed to have priority.
According, Progressthe Métropole, which is responsible for children, has offered accommodation “’unsanitary’, full of cockroaches and bedridden women”. “In addition to being incompatible with his disability, both because of the too small toilets and the absence of a lift. »