A surge of solidarity. The gendarmes of the Loire mobilized to bring emergency food aid to a family in distress in Valfleury (Loire), whose father threatened to go into a business armed with a rifle, we learned this Saturday from consistent sources.
Alerted by a social worker, in contact with a father who talked about the plan to go shopping in a supermarket equipped with a gun, due to lack of resources due to the epidemic of coronavirus, gendarmes went on Friday in this village of 700 inhabitants of the metropolis of Saint-Etienne where the couple and their 10-year-old child reside.
Gendarmes intervene in a person in great distress.
She can no longer work after the crisis and can no longer provide for her family.
Touched, they make up a stocked basket while waiting for a social response. # PourLaPopulation # ParLeGendarme pic.twitter.com/mKR8KaOSyN
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The 48-year-old fairground merchant told them that he had not obtained assistance from the banks despite the steps taken and that he was short of money to make food purchases, said the same source.
“A social worker assigned to the gendarmerie will take over on Monday. But as their fridge was empty, the thirty men and women of the Saint-Paul-en-Jarez and Saint-Chamond units who intervened on the spot gathered an emergency food stock which was handed over (Friday) evening to this family, "said commander Christophe Sadler, who heads the Saint-Etienne company.
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The mayor of Valfleury, Michel Maisonnette, explains that he "directed (his) citizen towards the social worker in the sector". "He called me back (Friday) evening," he added. "He was very happy with the help of the gendarmes and the meeting he will be able to have next week."
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