As Remy Louvradoux, Marcel Dumas would have to remain anonymous to the system, so that this type of odious cuisine can continue. Well, at Crashdebug, we refuse! And even if it's indigestible early in the morning, we prefer to inform you of what's going on behind the scenes of our pathocracy community, to expose its excesses in broad daylight...
It was December 30, 2010. Marcel Dumas had pinned a note on the door of his house in Saint-Xandre, in Charente-Maritime: “I am dead”, then he went to hang himself.
An intrigued passerby had alerted the emergency services. The gendarmes discovered the body a little later. Too late.
According to those close to him, Marcel was not depressed, let alone suicidal. He was just at the end of his rope. At 56, unemployed, with 600 euros per month to survive, he had just received a registered letter from the Pôle emploi ordering him to repay an overpayment of 8.944,76 €. No supporting document accompanied this standard mail with all administrative drought. No count of the sums due either, but a schedule to be respected: 1.789 euros per month for five months. "To be considered a fraudster, he did not support it", sums up Marie-Lise Deschamps.
Twenty years of precariousness
Marie-Lise is Marcel's big sister. She says she only discovered her brother's distress after his death, going through her meager papers. “He never talked about his problems. I learned later that he was obsessed with this case. His fear was that his house would be taken from him, that he would find himself on the street. For me, it is clear that he was pushed to suicide.
Marie-Lise describes her youngest as an old boy "withdrawn" but "who would never have hurt anyone". Someone "destitute", "defenseless", with his school certificate for only luggage. A marine electrician, he had been laid off when the Gib Sea shipyard in Marans closed in the early 1990s. “He hadn't found a real job since. He lived on subsidized jobs, odd jobs from right to left.
In 2007, Marcel Dumas was recruited by the Maison des chômeurs in La Rochelle. 26 hours per month paid 200 euros. Which he dutifully records on his tax return. His "adviser referent" of the ANPE is aware, as evidenced by the liaison sheets of 2008 that Marie-Lise found.
However, in the fall of 2010, the Pôle emploi accused him of not having declared this activity. Cancels him temporarily, suspends his rights and notifies him of the overpayment. Then, with regard to the ASS, a state allowance, the file is transmitted to the prefecture. The machine is working.
On December 28, 2010, the Pôle emploi summons Marcel Dumas to an interview for January 5. Then he told him that he was struck off on the 10th for not attending the appointment. He had been dead for eleven days.
Neither guilty nor responsible
A blunder in the hunt for small fraudsters? Marie-Lise Deschamps is convinced of this. She is angry with this referent adviser who knew and said nothing, who did not want to see Marcel's good faith and his distress. “Curiously enough, he was replaced right after my brother died…”
If she decided to speak, it is “so that it does not happen again”. It is also to combat this feeling of helplessness that has haunted her for a year. The public prosecutor of La Rochelle closed his complaint without further action for "absence of offense". The Department of Labor and Employment belatedly recognized that there had been no fraud, the beneficiaries of the ASS being able, under certain conditions, to combine salary and allowance. But no one, except himself, can be held responsible for his brother's death.
At the Pôle emploi, the regional director of Poitou-Charentes, Dominique Morin, rejects any causal link between the procedure initiated against the unemployed person and his suicide. It excludes in the same way any malfunction of its services: “The triggering fact is the non-declaration of wages. Marcel Dumas had recognized him. He had contacted us to ask for a staggering. We only apply by delegation of the State the regulations that the law imposes on us.
No fault, no malfunction, the procedures were followed. But if they lead to this result, is that perhaps they should be changed?
(Source: South West) Via basket of crabs
source: Realsinfo
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