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In ten days, no less than 140 young migrants will be on the street in Orleans. Since they have all been 18 since the beginning of the year, the county council of Loiret has therefore meant the end of their right to accommodation. Instead of this device, they will receive aid of 450 euros for housing, food and clothing, while continuing to study, under penalty of expulsion. Several associations are demonstrating Wednesday afternoon in downtown Orleans to denounce this situation.
Heard on europe1:
On September 2, I go back to school, but at the same time, on August 31, I'm asked to go out
Yves is in this case. Ten days ago, this young Central African was still a minor but in ten days, he will sleep in the street. For the most part, he is no longer entitled to a place of accommodation. Instead, he will receive the allowance insertion young Loiret (Ajil), an aid of 450 euros per month. A sum largely insufficient to lodge and buy food. "One week after your majority, you are told that you are of age and that you will manage." On September 2, I go back to school, but at the same time, on August 31, I am asked to go out ", says t he at the microphone of Europe 1.
Yves faces a major problem: if he stops his studies to work, he loses his residence permit. "It looks like a trap that's closing in on us, 'you go to school,' but I sleep where and how do I do it? 'Okay, if you want, you work,' but when you work, you can not not going to school, we are really lost, we do not know what to do. "
A bill of law discussed in the Senate
In the department, they are just 140 major in the same impasse. "The law is coldly applied," denounced Ségolène Petit, a member of the support group for isolated young foreigners in Loiret, who calls to protest on Wednesday afternoon. "It's violent, we find it unacceptable." Yves is celebrating his birthday in the street ... They are asked to become independent, but they are not given the necessary conditions to do so. "
A bill that will be discussed soon in the Senate must extend the support in accommodation of these young people up to 21 years. A delay that would have left Yves time to validate a CAP or a baccalaureate pro in electronics, find a job and, as he says, "fit into society".