Ten days after the attempted immolation of a student in Lyon, the government is struggling to respond to student anger. An inter-union meeting will be held tonight. All denounce the precariousness of student life.
One of the difficulties when you are a student is to stay. It is said, moreover, that these precarious students in universities are in fact the children of "yellow vests". After the baccalaureate, you have to leave the family home to study in the big cities, at the faculty, where real estate prices have sometimes become delusional. For example, at the University Lyon 2 - the student who immolated himself - on the banks of the Rhone, it is more than 5,000 euros per square meter. In Paris, Jussieu, at the Sorbonne, it is obviously even worse with more than 1,000 m2.
This is a statement that was drawn last week Gaspard Gantzer, candidate for mayor of Paris, on Europe 1. "There is a positive myth in Paris, it is 'to go up in Paris.' There are 80% of Parisians who were not born in Paris, why they managed to come to Paris because there was room for them, studios, small areas they could rent, "said the former communications advisor Francois Hollande. "If tomorrow the city closes on itself because prices have exploded, Paris will rot on foot, because there will be more than very rich people to live there."
"A figure in constant increase since 2000"
In this precarious real estate, we can obviously add job insecurity, with a youth unemployment rate of 19%, twice the national average. Difficulty in housing and finding work so, and suddenly, it is terrible, after their studies, a growing part of this youth is forced to return to live with their parents. And it is "a figure in constant increase since 2000", says INSEE, which speaks of "boomerang generation".
46% of people under 29 have not been able to take flight, their independence - and still live with their parents. It reminds the movie Tanguy . Except that there, the situation is suffered, and therefore it is very badly lived on both sides.