REPORTAGE
After the health crisis comes the economic crisis. Containment has had disastrous consequences for many sectors in France and individual aid as for companies is slow to arrive. While many are waiting for August 25 and the details of the stimulus package announcements, some have already made requests for food aid. In Paris, they explode: more than 10,000 people have already knocked on the door of the Secours populaire since the start of the crisis.
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"My employer could not hire"
Because by paying two symbolic euros, Nadi can fill his cart. "Preserves, vegetables and fruit are already very good", he explains to the microphone of Europe 1. It is the first time that he comes to the Secours populaire since he lost his web developer job. "My employer told me that because of the confinement, he could not take me back, that he could not hire. In the meantime, I come here," said Nadi.
As for Bacary, his next appointment at Secours populaire is in September. He is a construction worker and has stocked up on groceries for his wife and two children. Without orders, he has no income. "It is they (the members of the Secours populaire, editor 's note) who help us!" explains Bacary.
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"Our fear will be this re-entry"
In France, registrations for the Secours populaire have increased by 45% since March and the confinement. For Abdel Ghazi, secretary general of Secours populaire de Paris, this wave of new poor could lead to serious social unrest. "Our fear, it will be this return", he warns at the microphone of Europe 1. "We are announcing an increase in unemployment", he recalls, specifying that more and more new profiles are taking the step of association door. "We see people we never saw before: people in the film industry, students, the elderly and Uber self-employed ...."
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On July 1, the Secretary of State for Solidarity, Christelle Dubos, had indicated that the government would release an additional 55 million euros, after 39 million in April, for associations providing food aid to households weakened by the health crisis . Help that Abdel Ghazi, like the other members of the Secours populaire, is impatiently awaiting.