A solidarity grocery store for students, end of January 2021 (illustration).

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  • "The Crous de Paris is putting an end [to a food distribution] for questions of authorization while students are hungry", indignant a publication relayed on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

  • Put online by the student movement Resilience, it denounces, with supporting images, the interruption by the Paris Crous of a charitable operation in favor of students organized in front of its premises.

  • This incident did take place on March 19, 2021, as confirmed by the Crous de Paris at

    20 Minutes

    , while explaining that it was not requested beforehand by the organizers of this action. 

Haro on the packages of pasta, preserves and other bricks of soup at the entrance to Crous de Paris.

In a video posted online on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the student movement “for a transformative unionism” Resilience accuses the Regional Center for University and School Works in the capital for having put an end to its food distribution operation organized on the 19th. last March in front of the establishment's headquarters.

“Come on, look!

Look !

[The person in charge of the Crous de Paris] wants to get his table back so he puts everything on the ground ”, we hear in a commentary on these images showing a man (then two) removing the various foodstuffs placed on a table installed on the steps of the building. , which also houses a university residence.

🚨Solidarity that gets fired by @CrousParis!



A food distribution is organized by students on 03/19/21.

The CROUS of Paris puts an end to it for questions of authorization while students are hungry 🤦



👉 @ VidalFrederique you endorse that?

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- Resilience France (@ResilienceFra) March 25, 2021

"We did a student distribution right here and they decided, because there was no authorization, to remove everything because they want to control the communication of distributions and defend their meals at 1 euro while the students […] have taken food and need it, ”also laments the representative of the collective on the occasion of this video.

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“In the general context of student precariousness and the lack of resources made available by the government, we consider that we must act at our level.

On March 19, we therefore organized a food distribution for which we communicated to the students but not to the Crous, ”

Romaric Thurel, coordinator of the Resilience movement

, explained to

20 Minutes

.

“We were able to ensure distribution for about three quarters of an hour or an hour using a Crous table - which we had asked to take from the employees - before we were interrupted.

There was no violence on the part of the CROUS, just an eventful intervention that we find unfortunate because it would have been easier and more useful to ask us to move a few meters, ”he laments.

Distribution carried out without prior information from CROUS

Reached by

20 Minutes

, the Crous de Paris confirms having "had to interrupt this food distribution which took place on the forecourt of [his] establishment without having been informed beforehand, and which was held precisely in front of the front door [of the ] university restaurant, on the edge of the staircase.

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“We indicated [to the students] that it was not possible to stay at this location - which also seemed dangerous to us - and that if they wished to organize an action in collaboration with the Crous de Paris, we would be completely agreed to organize things together upstream ", continues the CROUS, which recalls its ongoing collaborations with" many actors of solidarity "but also the need to obtain a" prior agreement so that the logistical organization of these operations take place at best, with the safeguards that such a device requires.

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For its part, the Resilience movement specifies, through the voice of its coordinator, that it did not seek "the confrontation" by publishing the images of the incident: "It was just, for us, a means of witnessing to the event.

We were very surprised by the extent that it took on social networks.

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