There is obviously still progress to be made in terms of inclusion. For Élyne, 9, the afternoon at the Parc du Bocasse in France was not synonymous with a good laugh. Sunday August 28, she has the right as every year to a family outing with her parents and the rest of the siblings in the main amusement park of Seine-Maritime, near Clères. Élyne, living in Mathonville, near Buchy, suffers from agenesis, she is missing her left hand and a large part of her forearm.
“We had gone on a merry-go-round with small boats which ends in a ‘toboggan'”, says his mother, Sandy Godu. But when settling in, the person who was in charge of the attraction says to him: ““the young girl who has no arms is not possible, she cannot do the carousel”, testifies- she in the columns of Paris Normandy” ”. The little girl “came out in tears”.
Elyne’s mother deplores a lack of professionalism: “We later discovered that there was a sign at the start of the queue indicating that the park must refuse handicap situations for safety reasons. But I would have liked someone to tell me before rather than queuing for 45 minutes for nothing. And especially when I paid the normal rate at checkout. There, we were told nothing about my daughter’s disability, ”laments Sandy.