In Montpellier, the opposition dismayed by the "anti-SDF rocks"

In Montpellier (Hérault), the installation by the municipality of large blocks of stone, in places where homeless people usually congregate, is shocking.

This Friday, if the anti-homeless rocks placed under the Alphonse-Loubat bridge, at Corum, had been removed, they were still present under the Polygone shopping center, at the level of the access to the car park, near the place Vauban, a found

.

The We Are movement speaks of “real rocks of shame”. “As winter approaches, the municipality therefore chooses to spend public money not to find lasting solutions for these people, but to dislodge them with what they found colder and more inhospitable. : stones ”, deplores the movement, which has launched an online petition in recent days for them to be withdrawn. "The mayor and his team have obviously lost their humanist compass, and it is up to the inhabitants to remind them that hunting poverty is not hunting the poor," writes the movement We are .

⛔ Fight against the homeless: the heart of stone of the Mayor of #Montpellier

It must be recognized that the Mayor-President goes to great lengths to make Montpellier look like a postcard: pic.twitter.com/qWC2IwGHGM

- We are Montpellier (@NousSommesMtp) November 10, 2021

The Abbé Pierre Foundation asks the mayor for explanations

"Not glop", lamented Thursday on Twitter Manuel Domergue, the director of studies of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, who asks the mayor, Michaël Delafosse (PS) for explanations.

Julie Garnier (LFI), regional councilor in Ile-de-France of rebellious France, pointed out, for her part, the "inhumanity" of the mayor of Montpellier.

Asked by

this Friday, the town hall has not, for the moment, responded to our requests.

Sébastien Cote (PS), elected for public peace, explained to

on Wednesday that he

had put in place this device “for two reasons.

The first because it is public space and it cannot be monopolized.

And under this bridge, it is not a place of life, it is out of the question to have people who will spend the winter outside.

These are people who must be accommodated.

"

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