Paris (AFP)
The LFI deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis Clémentine Autain on Tuesday sounded the "alarm bell" on the situation in his department where "populations are hungry", asking the public authorities to better respond to the amplified "social emergency" by the covid-19 crisis.
"I am sounding the alarm: in Seine-Saint-Denis, not only but in Seine-Saint-Denis in particular, the queues to get food aid are constantly growing and you have populations which today have hungry, "warned the MP on Franceinfo TV.
"I am surprised that, in such a rich country, the public authorities do not organize solidarity better to support associations, to increase social minima and to respond to the social emergency which emerges with confinement", said she denounced.
In Seine-Saint-Denis, she recalls, "confinement is harder confinement for many families who do not have second homes on the Ile de Ré or elsewhere and who end up in cramped accommodation sometimes unhealthy and with wages that are the wages of misery. "
"We have a more fragile population, which takes more time to go to the doctor because the waivers of care are linked to the social and economic situation," she also warns.
According to INSEE, Seine-Saint-Denis is one of the departments most heavily affected by Covid-19 with a much higher number of deaths in March compared to March 2019 (+ 62%).
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