worried about their tranquility and on the basis of rumors of an anonymous letter, residents of Euffigneix, village of Haute-Marne, prevented the installation of a home for social assistance to childhood.
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This is a story that could have finished suffocated. Effigneix, in Haute-Marne, has not had this chance and its 300 inhabitants are now fleeing social networks, where they have been lynched since The Journal de la Haute-Marne revealed, on May 27, the mobilization of a part of the villagers to prevent the installation of a home for social assistance for childhood (ASE) near their home.
Under the aegis of the Departmental Council, the Le Colibri association, which already manages seven ASE homes in France, was preparing to buy a house in the town to accommodate seven children aged 7 to 12 years and their five educators. Until a collective of neighbors writes an anonymous letter and obtained the withdrawal of the project.
At the beginning of April, things were well engaged, according to Jérôme Audordier, the director general of the hummingbird, an association close to the Scout movement. He had found a large pavilion on the heights of the village, not too far from the school, at the end of the dead end of the Chaux Fours, a calm and flowery residential area. “We had received a very good welcome from the town hall, I intended to make a public meeting before the summer, as soon as we would have signed the sales compromise,” he says.
“we feared the degradations, the noise “
By then, only the mayor without label Frédéric Mutz and his first assistant were aware. In Haute-Marne, 450 children are accompanied by social protection. The department, which is lacking, as elsewhere, of foster families, was due to this project. The small home of Euffigneix had to collect children victims of educational deficiencies, all from the region, and some without family (pupils of the State).
“These are kids who must be protected, explains Jérôme Audordier. In any case of delinquent children, who are taken care of by the judicial protection of youth.” A point that the associative manager is did not have time to develop. “On April 23, the mayor called me to say to me:” It was going up. “Residents had called him to say that the children could not come and settle in a residential area.” In a few days, rumor took such proportions that some were already alarmed to “disembark migrant buses”, says a member of the municipal council.
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