Good evening, I present to you jean claude
at 63 we meet him in August
2016
it’s nice warm the streets are
animated it’s nice enough and it’s
a friend who introduced it to us
jean-claude he lives for 30 years rue
meaux finally rather in the street because
that jean-claude he’s homeless he saw
the children of this neighborhood become big
he enjoyed he has a lot of neighbors
it’s a bit of an icon he knows
build but a little home he has
his barbecue reads his dog rocky 2
when it comes to see it, it leaves a table
chairs the folds and they we
offer to drink when the meeting and
he was offered to realize his
portrait and we asked him what they
would like to get better and he has
says an old high
it’s a bit complicated then they
would like a channel a fishing rod
to go to the canal saint martin and –
to be bored because when we are in the
street time goes slowly very
slowly too slowly
jean clooney plus actor ll the
spectators they see time go by
without being able to do anything more
the time it takes advantage
a few weeks later for oneself
gironde a tarn fishing rod a
fishing box socks a
parka a phone a radio and
jean-claude he is super happy because
that he was considered the problem
is that the weeks pass and that
jean-claude he is still in the street
there is a cold snap that falls in
France some flakes appear
jean claude is sick we are very
worried in addition to the mayor she wants the
to turn from his sidewalk
and then the most too much strength for
to combine ten meters away then one
must react
we must act and we are a good idea
we could collect 2000 euros for
that associations take over
it’s rather daring we launch the pot
is after three days it’s 5000
euros collected from 250
people
which is very interesting in there
when we learn the news
to jean-claude he did not believe
he thought it was a joke so
we were very happy
one morning we came to pick him up
took a car and was taken to
his campsite we are good we made the
shopping with him we buy him a
television so he does not get bored
and his dog joined him a week
later in his mobile home jeans
claude was happy he was better
since he was durably rehoused
by emmaüs
he has a studio he has decreased his
cigarette consumption and he has
completely stopped drinking after
thirty years of street his stories is tied
it’s without media impact art that I have
Founded in 2000 13 to 18 years without at
for homeless without money without friendship
without affection without love without attention
but with stories of the hope of
the humor of the emotions of resilience
what is interesting with the story
of jean claude to return to it is that
it’s not this collected money that has
allowed to help eventually it’s because
that you did not consider it that
you read his story because you
discovered it had discovered and we
asks our journalists to take
this time this time to go to the
meet people from these
invisible to discuss with them the
listen
which is also interesting
we are in a society
extremely complex one has for objective
to make visible and invisible
we talk we talk are used
social networks as catalysts
of history to unite
community they are committed to acting to
through quality journalism and
they are more than 20000 by the way all
our stories are seasons that are
what it is that for two months
we will talk about a problem and we
let’s go dig it and go dig
is for you to discover
but without a sense enough not come by
chance this job he really was born
a desire to fight against
prejudices stereotypes against
invisible against the excluded I
personally suffered the exclusion in my
schooling
I felt alone devaluing
inconsiderate and like a lot
finally I was at least once
in my life 101 and that’s what got me
made you want to act
and when we ask our journalists
to take the time is because we
search their intimacy
because they give it to us because he
we have books and we owe them
respect because ultimately we are the
mouthpiece of what we do not listen and
that we do not see as charlotte a
grandmother who lives alone in the
digs the only help she receives
it’s bills and taxes and
nobody likes that charlotte she has
lost one of her sons and her husband
she lives alone in her house
watch Frederic’s shows
lopez to escape from his loneliness
she tells us the story of this point
Americans who belonged to his mother
from his family canes and everything
that she does not tell us if like
remember those bygone eras
like to say to myself my life is not
over she goes in her garden invents herself
stories of camp elves when we
was going to see charlotte and we knew
that she did not get to be it
was a little annoyed and then we had
received a message from maeva a reader
who lives in japan charlotte she has
touched a community beyond the
France what maeva send him a
letter we found the idea so much
awesome we said but we have to
mobilize this community finally
she received letters from brazil from
the mauritius island of croatian japan
serbia of estonia of france from germany
from Belgium to Italy and charlotte
been incredibly happy because
thanks to these letters she received
relived she thought no one was getting
cared for her and had
completely wrong hundreds of
people proved it by watching this
documentary even thousands and
since these letters and meeting
charlotte she adopts a new ritual
every night before bedtime she
writes positive things about his
day to read them the next day and
to give oneself courage
she also spends three hours of her
time every day to meet his
new neighbors as with leonie she
received a letter in return for
charlotte she intends to answer him well
finally charlotte she saw the
time spent with his new neighbors
no longer see him charlotte she waits
your letters
so I take a few seconds what
I invite you to note this address at
watch this documentary is his
write a letter
the time that slowly goes boredom the
solitude many know them as
eric he spent 18 years in jail when
he went out he took a few seconds
to look at this sky because it
had forgotten this landscape when he
is when he came out
it was the time of the euro when she
went back to prison that time of
francs he says it himself when the
society advances in you the perception
of reality although we are well
different
when he also came out he
said but you know me I have to put
to emails to computers it’s great
complicated and in this story it’s
that we think eric he came out and
that he had nothing no he had a
life project he had a dream a
envy in prison they did not have
give up
he kept in his cell
records the same beginning and 14
procedures against body searches
to replace them with portals
electronic
he won he managed he also
allowed students to get by
after the prison they could not read
neither write
jean-marie well he helped to
build a folder in
professionalising times a contract of
professionalization then a cdd and
finally a cdi in a town hall and ricard
day there is a lawyer who came on
see and told him you know sir
you should make a lawyer that he has
thought he would have started to
exercise at age 75 so eventually he has
decided to become a legal assistant
eric he found meaning in his life
help others and I myself
decided to help others and people
homeless the elderly the
people coming out of prison
we all have anxieties of fears
we can fix them all, we also think
that our days are not enough
long as our time is precious
we think that people who are in
the street who are precarious homeless
excluding too much time and benefiting
I think it’s wrong I think
this time isolates hurts you are that it’s in
giving of our time that we will help them
and we will win
thank you
[Applause]
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