2 months in prison for rice and pasta because he "was hungry"

“Cahors, a young homeless man was sentenced to two months in prison for stealing rice, pasta and a tin of sardines. He told the judge he was hungry and told the magistrates he had committed the theft “out of necessity” not stealing anything else. The victim did not file a complaint, because the young man did not cause any damage in the house. Maître Adeline Nesliat-Delhaye, the lawyer for the young homeless man, had asked for the release: "I recalled the case law on the state of necessity" she indicated. " I referred to a new chapter of "Misérables" by Victor Hugo, where Jean Valjean is sentenced to 20 years in prison for stealing bread. In 2016, it's not the prison but it remains revolting. »

The Cahors court sentenced the young man to two months in prison.

According to the 21^e report of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, the number of homeless people has doubled in the last ten years. An alarming figure and a harsh reality, which some Parisians prefer to ignore. 3 out of 4 French people judge their country to be unequal, with housing appearing to them as the third most serious source of inequality and the second most widespread.

Paris, romanticism, the Eiffel Tower and its café terraces. Paris, its mythical and historical places and its museums. But Paris is also poverty and its homeless people who camp in metro stations, in the street. Much more than the atrocity of this precarious situation, it is the indifference of the passers-by accustomed to this social misery which is appalling.