Charles de Gaulle Airport renamed after his daughter Anne for Disability Week

For 2022, the ADP group, which owns the Paris airports, has planned to support the cause of disability in its own way. Starting this Saturday, December 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport will be renamed Anne-de-Gaulle, after the general’s daughter, who was a carrier of trisomy 21, for eight periods. days, study Le Figarofrom, confirming information France information.

The French company thus wants to promote “integration of people with neurological and intellectual disabilitiesAugustine de Romanet, its CEO, explained. For one week, passengers arriving or departing from Paris airport will be able to listen to the captain’s microphone.Welcome to Anne de Gaulle Airport“. The new name will also be displayed on display boards or the lining of some terminals, it is explained France information The head of Paris airports.

For Augustine de Romanet, the idea specifically refers to “raise the standard“For the reception of persons with disabilities in public places, realizing that the efforts already made are not always implemented”.optimally“. And giving as an example the stairs of the passenger route or the lack of strictness of some airlines that forget to inform in time about the presence of disabled people on the plane in order to get down accordingly. however much”small details“what the CEO believes”intolerable“.

The initiative was created in collaboration with the Anne-de-Gaulle Foundation, dedicated to people with intellectual disabilities. The last of the de Gaulle family after Philippe and Elisabeth, Anne, who died in 1948 at the age of 20, was highlighted in the 2020 film by Gabrielle Le Beaumain.