The Parisian town hall is preparing to appoint “Place des Fighters and AIDS fighters” a place of the marsh. A first in France.
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The AIDS epidemic has officially started in 1981, when five mysterious deaths have been described in an American medical review. Forty years and millions of dead later, the city of Paris is preparing to inaugurate a “place of fighters and AIDS fighters”, in the heart of the capital. A first in France. “Even in the world, it will be one of the first places to integrate the word” AIDA “into its name,” Rejoins Pierre Batista, the President for Paris of Aids, one of the main combinations of HIV.
Tribute does not unanimity. “A plaque is nice, comments Antoine Chassagnoux, the president of Act Up-Paris. But it would be better to finally create the LGBT archive center who still lacks in Paris.” And above all, “to lead a Reception policy of migrants who do not lead them to live on the street, where they are contaminated, “adds Pierre Dauphin, the Secretary General of the Association.
In December 2006, Jacques Chirac, then President of the Republic, had already inaugurated in the Parc de la Villette (19 e arrondissement) a place in memory of the dead of AIDS and all those mobilized against the epidemic. A huge fresco placed on the ground, signed Fabrice Hyber, at a cost of € 1.75 million. The visitor works in the middle of cells, scientific, gender, viruses, skulls and skeletons … but this site “did not quite find its place,” recognizes the town hall. Eccentric, it has not become the large gathering and souvenir space.
“The city of Europe most affected by the epidemic, with London”
Jean-Luc Romero-Michel, tireless militant Anti-Aida and Deputy Mayor PS Anne Hidalgo, was in search of a new place in the center of the capital. The project submitted to the next Council of Paris, from 16 to 19 November, plans to award the name “place of fighters and AIDS fighters” to a portion of the land separating Rue de Rivoli and Saint-Antoine Street (4 e ), in the marsh, one of the historic districts of LGBT.
“Paris was the most affected European city by the epidemic, with London,” says Anne Hidalgo in the draft deliberation. It was also in the capital, in 1983, that a team from the Institut Pasteur identified the human immunodeficiency virus as responsible for AIDS, adds the town hall. “It is therefore essential to honor those who died like those who are fighting, says Jean-Luc Romero-Michel. I hope that the deliberation will be voted unanimously.” The inauguration is already scheduled for 1 December, for World AIDS Day, and the blue plate will be exceptionally adorned with a symbolic red ribbon.
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