Occupation of a building in the presence of Abbé Pierre

Occupation of a building in the presence of Abbé Pierre

New occupation of Parisian building organized yesterday afternoon by the association DAL (Right to housing). In the presence of the press, Abbé Pierre and several personalities, about forty people settled in a building of the Bank of France located 14 rue Béranger, in the 3rd arrondissement. - Rue Béranger: PR Abbé PIERRE, surrounded by the crowd and the photographers, sends a hand greeting to the floors of the building / plainclothes police, mobile phone in hand - declare. from Abbé PIERRE, seated next to an African woman and her child: "If the public force really came (..) I would put the other handcuff of a homeless father on my arm" - ITW Homeless Mother: "You see where the layoff leads us!" - Noël MAMERE, former Vice-President of Génération Ecologie, leaning over a window in the squatted building - ITW Professor Léon SCHWARTZENBERG: "This is a building belonging to the Bank of France which has not been occupied for more than three years" - PL demonstration at the foot of the building / ITW mgr Jacques GAILLOT, bishop of Evreux: "We will be obliged to report our action to the justice, if she asks us" - demonstrators / banner "application of the law of requisition" on the facade of the building - ITW Fodé SYLLA, President SOS Racisme: "This law stipulates that for reasons of national solidarity on the one hand, and on the other because there are lots of vacant housing in Paris, that it is possible, that we occupied this housing" - DAL demonstration at the foot of the building, located opposite the headquarters of the newspaper Libération.

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Publication date : 25 May 1994