• This Wednesday morning, a father climbed to the top of a crane in Cugnaux, south of Toulouse.

  • Father of a young man of 24 years disabled at 80%, he asked for his placement in a specialized center in the Gers.

  • At the end of the morning, after a proposal from December 15, he got off the crane.

This October 6 is caregiver day.

A symbolic date for Olivier Gutierrez and his wife, parents of a 24-year-old disabled child.

At 5:45 am this Wednesday morning, the father of the family climbed to the top of a crane, in the town of Cugnaux south of Toulouse.

The only way he has found to alert on the situation of his son, Axel, who is awaiting an emergency placement in a specialized establishment, in Ordan-Larroque, in the Gers.

“Four years of efforts and lost hope, but still no solution.

Letters to all the authorities of the Republic: everyone is sorry for us but nobody does anything.

Red tape: the steamroller of the Departmental House of disabled people wins the battle… For the moment, ”he laments in a Facebook post.

I am Olivier Gutierrez, I climbed on a crane at the corner of avenue du Comminges and rue de las borios in Cugnaux since 5:45 am on this national day of #aidants #RAPT #pereendetresse #menacesuicide #handicape Toulouse pic. twitter.com/t3LchVIsBf

- SunSky_1 (@ SunSky_1) October 6, 2021

In a letter sent to

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, Chantal Guttierez indicated that her "husband [would] only get off the crane when the placement [would] be effective".

Axel, more than 80% disabled, has Prader-Willy syndrome.

For more than four years he has been on a waiting list to join the Gers specialist center.

An existing place, but an administrative refusal

His parents living in Haute-Garonne, we first explained to them that Alex could not be taken care of in the establishment.

They suddenly bought a house in Auch and made it their main residence.

In the meantime, "we continue to live in Cugnaux as long as Axel goes to his medico-pedagogical institute for adolescents in Colomiers, in order to respect his habits and not to further traumatize him", they explain.

If a meeting with the actors of the sector and the establishment of Gers made it possible to recognize that this place was the only one suitable for Axel, he has still not been able to integrate it.

In the meantime, “we feel helpless and too often powerless, exhausted in our daily life.

We are in great suffering due to this uncertainty and the anguish of our child, ”lament the Guttierez.

After a crisis meeting this morning with the Regional Health Agency, the Haute-Garonne Departmental House of Disability, a proposal for a place from December 15 in the Gers establishment could be made to the family.

The father got off the crane shortly after noon on Wednesday.

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