A quarantine of personalities signatories of an open letter, published on the website of the Sunday Newspaper, ask Emmanuel Macron an “upgrade” of public services in the territories popular hit by the health crisis, in particular the Seine-Saint-Denis.
“We are asking for justice for the territories who have paid the highest price for the crisis, for the dead of the covid, for the ‘first chores'”, such as nurses, cashiers or delivery persons, they write, warns about a disastrous situation that has deteriorated further with the health crisis.
In the departments of ile-de-france, notably in Seine-Saint-Denis department, the poorest of the city – the disparities pre-existing conditions have served as a fertile ground for the expansion of the epidemic, coronaviruses, resulting in an excess exponential, revealed a study released may 11 by the regional Observatory for health in Ile-de-France.
These elected officials from the left and personalities (athletes, doctors, actors, economist) list as “six emergency measures” to address the current deficiencies.
Among them: an “upgrade of all our public services”, a “social plan”, including a year in white for the evictions. But also a fight against discrimination, with a “plan of struggle against police violence,” including a “receipt against the controlling the facies”, they ask.
“The efforts should not be made in the direction of the economic environment”, said to AFP, Gilles Poux, mayor (PCF) of La Courneuve, at the initiative of this letter.
A rally against the territorial inequalities is also expected Tuesday in this city.
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