A Secours populaire warehouse was broken into on Saturday in Echirolles (Isère), causing damage to the association estimated at some 300,000 euros. To recover from the situation, the Secours populaire de l’Isère launched both “a call for witnesses” to help with the police investigation but also “a call for solidarity” among “individuals, businesses, institutions , communities”.
“While the supported families need the most help, the association is affected right at the heart of its collection and redistribution system,” deplores the Isère branch of the association in a press release, which says it has been alerted by the police of the “misdeed”. “Our pallets of donations intended for families supported by our association were looted. Everything is trashed,” explains in the document the secretary general of Secours populaire français, Nabil Chetouf.
“Who can do that as the end-of-year holidays begin?” adds the manager, hoping that “the collection and redistribution capacities” of the association “will not be too impacted”.
“The person in charge of popular relief who went to the scene estimated the damage at 300,000 euros,” indicated the Grenoble public prosecutor’s office, contacted by AFP. “Two new vans” from the association were also “damaged”, according to the same source.
A call for solidarity
To recover from the situation as quickly as possible, the Secours populaire de l’Isère launched both “a call for witnesses” to help with the police investigation but also “a call for solidarity” among “individuals , businesses, institutions, communities”.
The association wanted to “reassure the supported families” by keeping its “solidarity spaces” open despite this situation.