Gathering of more than 1000 people in front of the Crous de Lyon in support of the Stéphanois student, Anas, burned at 90% after his immolation on Friday November 8 because in a financial precariousness too important to live following the non-renewal of his scholarship.

His political gesture wants to denounce the misery of our society and the rise of the extreme right - 12.11.2019 - Flore Giraud // 04SIPA_CROUS115057 / 1911121829 / Credit: Flore Giraud / SIPA / 1911121836 -

Flore Giraud / SIPA

On November 8, 2019, Anas set himself on fire in front of a Crous building in Lyon to denounce the precariousness of the students.

A desperate act with serious consequences.

The student, very badly burned, spent five months in a coma.

A year later, the 23-year-old gave his news publicly for the first time by posting a long message on social networks.

Burned in the third degree on 75% of the body, Anas indicates having undergone 48 operations and two amputations to the fingers, specifying that his "chances of survival" were estimated at the beginning at "24 hours".

He left the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon to follow his rehabilitation at the Argentière medical center.

“A year later, I still have open wounds and started new operations.

However, I gain day by day in autonomy: I have been talking again since May.

I walk very well and I manage to write texts correctly despite my amputations, ”he says, explaining having resumed his studies at a distance, still at the University of Lyon 2. Also specifying to continue his union activities.

"It is not in passivity that we manage to descend from good living conditions"

“I am aware of the gravity of my desperate act. I was going through a difficult period without stable employment, without student accommodation and without a university grant,” he explains.

I wake up to see that this will at least have allowed some progress such as the meals of the Restau U for one euro, even if they are only intended for scholarship holders ”.

“It is not through passivity that we manage to defend, and even less to gain, good living conditions,” he adds.

This is even truer at a time when the most precarious populations are upset by the disease of the coronavirus ", he concludes, not forgetting to thank all the people who supported him or" acted to give meaning to [his] gesture ”.

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