By Noé Kolanek
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The affair took on significant proportions on social media following Facebook posts. This Tuesday August 3 around 9:30 p.m., an altercation occurred between the owner of the Entrecôte Stanislas establishment in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) and Damien, a person who has been homeless for 20 months.
Runaway on social networks
Immediately, a post shared at 10 pm on Tuesday, August 3 on the Facebook group “Students of Nancy”, implicating the restaurant owner without proof, gained momentum. The next day, yellow vests seized the event via a second Facebook post, taking Damien’s side.
Followed controversial reactions on the networks going as far as calls for a boycott of the restaurant.
For Lorraine News, the two men wanted to speak in order to give their version of the facts.
The origin of the dispute
The very beginning of the dispute dates back to around 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 3, according to the two people involved. The manager explains “that it’s been four or five days since Damien settled down one meter from the tables on the terrace”, at the level of the Portes d’Or hotel, between his establishment and the Phénix pub, and “that he annoys its customers ”.
At that time, according to Damien, “he [le restaurateur] came to ask me to leave, that he was going to call the police, and he threatened me by telling me that he was going to follow me and hit me, if I stayed there ”.
The manager explains his version: “I already asked him [à 18h environ] if he could leave because it had been annoying customers for a few days. I had had the reflection of a client that day and then I left, because I didn’t want to argue with him ”.
To that, Damien would have explained to him that he “was in front of a hotel” and “that in a pinch, the lady of the hotel could ask him to leave but not him”, insisting that he was “in the legality. “. Both agree on the fact that the manager “leaves the restaurant” after the exchange.
Early evening
“I come back 3/4 hours later”, details Damien. He explains that he is positioned “in the same place as usual”, waiting “for a pasta dish paid for by a client of the restaurant opposite. [le Capri] ».
Around 9:30 p.m., the manager’s wife would, according to the owner of Entrecôte Stanislas, “allée le [Damien] see to tell him gently to leave after he asks for a cigarette at a girls’ table, next to the place where Damien usually settles. In particular because the girls would have indicated “that they wanted to finish the dish inside”, following the passage of Damien.
The moment of altercation
Still according to the restaurateur, Damien’s dog would then have bitten his wife, which provokes his reaction.
He specifies: “At that moment I said to him, ‘Oh! What are you doing? It’s good, go! The dog attacks people, you scare customers away, you insult us, it’s not good. And there he said to me, “Go fuck your ***,” who is dead. I twisted. I had the glass in my hand, I broke it on the ground. […] I took a second glass and broke it there ”. [Il montre un emplacement au sol proche de lui, au niveau de sa terrasse.]
According to his version, Damien develops this: “I don’t know when the tipping point is. It suddenly farted. I hear the boss insulting me. Then, a drink that reaches the Phoenix before exploding. I did not quite understand. A second glass that I dodged was thrown at me. These are clients from Capri who started to get angry because they saw that he was going to hit me. It started anyhow between the two restaurants afterwards. “
Heated minds
Also agree to say that the spirits were temporarily heated because of the altercation, the manager indicates that one of the customers of Entrecote Stanislas, obviously annoyed by the behavior that Damien would have had, “would have come to argue with the woman who cried from Capri. “
A general fed up
“Of course I’m sorry, I got out of my way. I shouldn’t have, ”admits the restaurateur. For him, the two men are “currently victims of their situation”. While the manager only wants “to work quietly”, but that “others do not stop annoying customers by touching their bread, spicing their dishes”, all day long, Damien “suffers his situation”, and he designs it.
“It’s an accumulation over several years”, continues the boss of Entrecôte Stanislas, explaining that “the problem is general”. Consequently, he does not want more “with him than with others”, he concludes.
“For him I was a piece of shit that was next to his restaurant”
For his part, Damien is also frustrated: “For him I was a piece of shit that was next to his restaurant. I know I’m homeless, that I’m not necessarily clean, but it’s okay. Times are hard enough like that. I don’t think I deserve this treatment. I always do my best to be respectful and polite with everyone, ”he concludes with Lorraine News.
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