Strasbourg
For months, the people of Strasbourg have been caught in a quagmire of conflicting emotions, oscillating between pity and outrage. Since the end of June, tents have been installed next to the administrative center of Eurometropolis, in Parc de L’Etoile, in front of everyone and environmentalist Mayor Zhanna Barseghyan.
On this Friday afternoon, most of the tents are closed, their inhabitants have fled. Last week, the national police counted 107 people, including 37 minors, and identified 23 families. The Red Cross had already intervened with two trucks, distributing clothes, blankets and a hundred emergency kits for the refugee camps.
The association Strasbourg Action Solidarité, which serves 400 to 500 meals once a week at the station for homeless people, offers clothes, toys and diapers for babies. Men come to choose Bermuda shorts. One is Georgian, speaks a little English. The other, a Macedonian, speaks German. “We…
Source: Le Figaro
