Guest of the morning of Europe 1, Florent Gueguen, director of the Federation of Solidarity Actors (FNARS), calls to extend the winter truce to protect homeless people from the coronavirus, stressing the difficulty of accommodation centers in provide containment.

While the country continues to multiply measures to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus and protect the population, a fringe of the latter seems well forgotten in the fight against the epidemic. There is little talk, in fact, of the plight of the homeless as the winter truce ends on March 31, the date when this fragile population will once again find itself on the street.

A situation on which Florent Gueguen, director of the Federation of actors of solidarity (FNARS), tries to alert, Wednesday. Invited to the morning show of Europe 1, he returned to the fears of associations faced with what could become "a health disaster".

The sword of Damocles of March 31

"People who are homeless or homeless are particularly exposed to the virus. Firstly because they obviously have no access to water or hygiene, so all the measures of the ministry de la Santé do not or hardly apply to this population when it is not housed, "he explains before continuing. "And when it comes to accommodation, there is the sword of Damocles from March 31. From this date, as is the case every year, winter accommodation places close as and when "We're getting closer to summer. It's nearly 12,000 spaces that were opened this winter in addition to the traditional accommodation park and that are likely to close."

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"So we, the associations fighting against exclusion, we ask for an extension of the winter plan because in exceptional circumstances, exceptional measures. And it would indeed be catastrophic from a health and social point of view if people are put back the street without solution from March 31, "he laments.

Centers not suitable for containment

Regarding people working in accommodation centers, Florent Gueguen ensures that the state health instructions are relayed in these accommodation structures, but regrets that "a majority of these centers do not have staff medical, doctor, or nurse, even though the people who live there are often at risk, a little aging, sometimes have very poor health or suffer from chronic diseases. " "The articulation with access to care is therefore very difficult, also taking into account the saturation of the 15th and the difficulties in obtaining hospitalization," he adds.

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And the director of FNARS raises a third difficulty: that of confinement "because, especially in big cities like Paris, there are many accommodation centers which are collective centers with very few individual rooms, local 'elsewhere often unsuitable and which do not allow to isolate a sick person who presents symptoms to protect him and protect other people housed ".