2023-11-04 14:00:49
During the night from Friday to Saturday, in Wanze, in the province of Liège, a homeless man (SDF) was found dead. An unusual tragedy in this town of 13,500 inhabitants.
“This is very unusual in Wanze territory, since we have very few cases of homelessness. And when one comes forward, we try to intervene.“, explains Xavier Mercier (PS), president of CPAS de Wanze who adds that “it is a human drama, a drama of precariousness.“
On site, the support services for people in difficulty are in shock and the representatives of the municipality assure that here they were not informed of the presence of this man in the abandoned buildings. They call for collective vigilance. “The right reflex for citizens is obviously when they realize that a person is squatting in a place like that, disused, it is to try to warn us and see what can be done. , especially in these times. And with winter coming“, underlines Xavier Mercier.
In the neighboring town, caring for the homeless also encounters difficulties. Thierry Delgaudinne, one of the members of an association which helps them, observed the successive closure of the places where they took refuge in the warmth: “Before, they slept in the station. The station was closed. They slept in the quadrilateral which is the parking lot for the town of Huy. We took them out of the parking lot and there, for example, they sleep in a park or they go to sleep in cemeteries.“
Faced with this lack of support, the Les Fraternels association is campaigning for the creation of a night shelter in the town of Huy. He denounces the lack of political will to carry out such a project.
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