Audrey Hénocque, First Assistant of the Mayor Ecologist Grégory Doucet and herself disabled, reproached his remarks at the Consultant of Right Françoise Blanc during a debate at the Municipal Council on Disability.
The Lyon right crosses a painful pass. After the resignation of Etienne Blanc of the Chairmanship of the opposition group at the town hall, because of his doubtful remarks on the Vichy regime, his replacement caused a spectacular episode, full of tears and misunderstandings, Thursday, November 18th. Municipal Council of Lyon, revealing the depth of political referentials, behind the choice of words.
After a banal report on the communal commission on the accessibility of the disabled, Françoise Blanc (without relatives with Senator LR), 72, has ironed on the presence of cycling associations in the Commission. “I did not understand that we could be able to pittle a foot bot or a cul-de-jatte,” said the [SUP> E ] councilor. This vocabulary deeply shocked the first assistant of the Ecologist Executive. “All you said is about the oppression of valid people on people with disabilities. We call validism. Talking about” cul-de-jatte “to talk about someone who is amputated legs at the legs. It is as serious as saying “Negro” for a person of color, “said Audrey Hénocque, 40 years old, sobs in his voice.
While the LR councilor had said “these beings” to designate people with disabilities, M me Hénocque, herself in a wheelchair after an accident, took over: “You say” these beings “As if there was a difference in nature between people. It is for me inadmissible. The company is composed of men and women with their assets and their difficulties, evolving over time, in society”. The Finance Assistant, Entry In Politics On the occasion of the last municipal, recalled the definition of disability by the United Nations, as a conjunction of three factors: disabilities, non-acceptability, difficulty of accessibility. “We see in your remarks that we have not yet come out of the hostel for the acceptance part of people with disabilities in society,” Hénocque, for whom the speech of the Councilor “contains everything that must be combated, the medicalization of disability, objectification of bodies, miserability, infantilization, the negation of dignity”.
“I do not deserve it not “
The intervention raised immense emotion. The ecologist and left majority rose to applaud length. “Madam, I want to express my regrets if I was able to create something that shocked you,” said Francoise Blanc, herself on the verge of tears, bruised by this trial. “I spent more than forty years of my life being in listening, the social, I think I do not deserve it,” pleaded the elected, visibly in shock.
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