Some do not have the chance to spend a cozy Christmas with their family. Last night, that of New Year’s Eve, while temperatures plummet and snowflakes appear, a man in his sixties, without a fixed address, launches an SOS to the gendarmes: he is in front of the parish house of Saint-Pierre -Le-Boeuf, he’s all alone and freezing cold …
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No emergency accommodation available
The gendarmes of the territorial brigade of Pélussin take charge of him. But we must face the facts, in the middle of Christmas Eve, impossible to find a place in emergency accommodation in the surrounding municipalities. The police keep making phone calls. In vain. Then, they turn to the social SAMU and dial 115. Accommodation is available… in Saint-Etienne. Or nearly 60 km from the premises of the gendarmerie.
It is now snowing heavily outside. Difficult to take the perilous Cols du Pilat in these conditions. The decision is quickly made: they decide to welcome him to spend the rest of New Year’s Eve at the barracks with them. Warm. With coffee and foie gras. After a good night’s sleep, the gendarmes took him the next day to other accommodation. A nice Christmas gesture.
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