The cold cold plan is triggered by the State when the minimum temperatures felt descend at very low levels, close to – 18 degrees. In the region, the prefects are invited to identify potential places to do the same.
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For several days, France has been going through an episode of cold marked by temperatures below seasonal normal (6.06 degrees over the period 1990-2020). In Paris, the cold cold plan to host more homeless people was launched in Paris on Monday December 12. “This Monday, December 12 at 4 p.m. Monday due to winter temperatures, the cold cold plan was launched in Paris”, written in a Communiqué the prefecture of Ile-de-France .
The cold cold plan is triggered by the State when the minimum temperatures felt descend at very low levels, close to – 18 degrees. It consists of opening emergency reception places in public buildings not provided for this purpose, such as gymnasiums or schools, in order to protect homeless people. Prefects can also increase human and financial resources dedicated to maraudes or 115, the emergency number for homeless people.
Tuesday, Météo-France provides for minimum negative temperatures in Ile-de-France, in Hauts-de-France and the Grand-Est in particular, after several days of temperatures lower than seasonal normal.
“As of Saturday, December 10, additional places were opened in Paris to welcome people reported during maraudes or by 115”, explains the prefecture of Ile-de-France, without specifying the exact number of open places . Thirty places have been opened in the premises of the prefecture “to accommodate isolated women”, and “a hundred” additional for “women, (the) families and (the) isolated men” must be “in the coming hours “, According to the prefecture.
In the regions, the prefects invited to identify potential places
The Minister Delegate for the City and Housing, Olivier Klein, has asked the prefects to identify buildings able to offer temporary accommodation places, in addition to the 198,000 available in the country. “I ask the regional prefects (…) to analyze all the vacant sites in their territories, based on the list made available by the State real estate management. You will realize me before this Friday Possibilities of exceptional use of these sites “, he writes in a letter consulted by the agency France-Presse.
The buildings concerned are “everything that is in correct condition, with a capacity to restart the heating and which is available,” the Minister told AFP. “And possibly other buildings which are not public but which could be useful and requisitioned,” he added.