A homeless man near the Nice courthouse (Illustration) -

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His gesture in return aroused an outpouring of solidarity to get him off the streets.

Moved by the distress of the victims of the floods in the Alpes-Maritimes, after the passage of the storm Alex, a Romanian homeless man from Nice donated his savings to help them.

The town hall offered him a job.

Jojo's story touches me and this exceptional solidarity he shows touches me even more.

With @cestrosi we want to extend a hand to him by offering him a job at the @VilledeNice pic.twitter.com/hXsfiAs7Pp

- Pierre-Paul Léonelli (@PPLeonelli) October 13, 2020

Ion-Nelu Gioroiu, nicknamed "Jojo", donated the 150 euros earned by selling a magazine published by the Solidarity 06 association for the benefit of the homeless, the last number of which also devotes a portrait to him.

Installed at the entrance to a car park in the center of Nice, he confided in this article his hope of finding work, housing and taking a French course.

An apartment at his disposal

His wish is granted: a job in the cleaning service of the town hall is promised to him and for the first time, "he no longer sleeps outside", explains a volunteer from the Secours populaire who brought him his meals during the evening marauding.

A benefactress also made accommodation available to her through the Café Suspended association.

“I woke him up this morning at 8 am in the apartment.

He is happy and in heaven, adds this volunteer, who preferred to remain anonymous.

I will continue to follow him.

"They must in particular go together to the Romanian consulate in Marseille so that" Jojo "can redo his papers stolen by attackers.

Abandoned at his birth in Craiova (southwest of Romania), the man lived in an orphanage under the Ceausescu era, in the street during the 1989 revolution, then in Italy where he went on to work without paper before d '' arrive in France in 2017.

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