Lyons. Homeless children and their families stay at the Chanfray gymnasium
This Monday afternoon, the City of Lyon decided to extend by one week the availability of the Chanfray gymnasium, in the Confluence district, which has been welcoming twelve families seeking asylum since the start of the Christmas holidays. , in appeal or dismissed, and 34 homeless children.
They were expected to leave the premises this Tuesday morning when school resumed. Friday again, the fear of returning to the streets, to sleep in tents, worried mothers.
“The Prefecture one week to react”
For lack of rehousing in emergency accommodation offered by the State services, the ecological town hall, not competent in matters of emergency accommodation, allowed the families to stay. Good news that when she arrived at the gym caused applause.
“It’s a relaxation,” says Fanny Talbot, from the collective Never without a roof. But there is no question of lowering our arms. “Now, the Prefecture has a week to react and propose solutions”, she said while the latest figures show 262 homeless children in the Metropolis (135 in Lyon alone).
On Twitter, the collective adds: “It is up to the Prefect to assume his mission of sheltering. »
Additional seats
Contacted by ProgressState services, said they were going to make announcements of the opening of additional places in the days to come.
Several potential sites allowing to be always the object of study to become accommodation center and to come to supplement the existing system (7,500 places of accommodation, as well as 550 maintained or open places, and the places of the Great Cold system).