Guest of Bonsoir Lyon, Christian Chazal took stock of the assistance offered to Lyon students weakened by the crisis and explained that new means, such as psychological cells, would be deployed.
In the space of just a few days, the Lyon student community has been hit by two student suicide attempts. While the student unions have been warning for several months about the distress of certain students, accentuated by the health crisis and the confinements, the general manager of Crous de Lyon reacted to these sad events in Bonsoir Lyon.
“We are all very shocked,” said Christian Chazal. “When we are grappling with these dramatic events, it is something terrible.”
The director of Crous also gave news of the student who tried to defenestrate Tuesday evening. “Fortunately, she did not go to the end of her act thanks to students who prevented her,” he explained.
The listening cells “will be doubled, or even tripled” in the Crous residences
Faced with these suicide attempts, Christian Chazal nevertheless assures us that “the objective of Crous is to welcome students in the best conditions, to help them, and I think that we have never had so many resources and reactivity” .
The director of Crous de Lyon adds that a psychological unit was set up in the wake of the student’s suicide attempt on Tuesday evening. Moreover, Christian Chazal assures us that the weekly listening cells offered to Lyon students who reside at the Crous “will be doubled, or even tripled in our residences”.
He also adds that the system of referent pupils, making it possible to “strengthen the social bond between the students”, brings satisfactory results. “They are intermediaries between the students and the administration”, he specifies, evoking a “particularly effective device” to help the fragile students to cross this crisis.
“The pandemic continues to increase this precariousness”
But faced with increasing suicide attempts, the director of the Crous de Lyon concedes: “The very particular circumstances we are going through undoubtedly lead to accentuate the weakening of students who are already in a difficult situation”, believes- he.
From a financial point of view, “the pandemic continues to increase this precariousness, no doubt because it has destroyed this fragile ecosystem which allowed students to supplement their scholarships with a job their income”.
Christian Chazal thus insists on the fact that there remain “at the Crous, the rectorate, a certain number of jobs of 10h, 15h, 20h weekly which are not filled”. The director of the CROUS ensures that the offers in question will be relayed again and invites Lyon students who need a job to apply.
The Lyon student organizations and unions are calling on the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal and the public authorities for “rapid consultation and a reaction commensurate with the suffering” of the students.
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