43 personalities have just signed a platform to support Stéphane Ravacley, a baker on hunger strike to prevent the expulsion of his Guinean apprentice, Laye Fodé Traoréiné.
Stéphane Ravacley, baker in Besançon, has been on hunger strike since January 3, 2021 to protest against the expulsion of his Guinean apprentice, Laye Fodé Traoréiné. Arrived at 16 years old under the status of isolated minor, the young man, now adult and who aims to pass his bakery CAP, has received an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), recalls BFMTV. For his learning tutor, this is unacceptable. So he started a total fast. But this Tuesday, January 12, according to France 3, the craftsman said he felt "very weak" and made a faint. He was transported to the Besançon CHU.
A mobilization that is growing
In Le Nouvel Obs, published on January 11, 2021, 43 personalities, including the actors Omar Sy and Marion Cotillard, the humorist and singer Camille Lellouche or even the rapper Eddy de Pretto, sign a platform to challenge the president of the Republic. "Mr. President, the situation is becoming urgent: Stéphane Ravacley has had three pulmonary embolisms in three years. His doctor considers him" fragile "and to let him continue this hunger strike would be a mistake, alert them. You cannot remain insensitive to the fact that a French citizen puts his health in danger in order to defend humanist principles – freedom, equality, fraternity – which are inscribed on the pediments of our town halls and are supposed to underpin our Republic ". Before adding, "For the past week, a huge wave of solidarity from bakers and citizens has risen all over France. Despite this vast mobilization, despite the mobilization of mayors and local elected officials, despite the 200,000 citizens who signed the petition in line, neither Gérald Darmanin nor Marlène Schiappa deigned to answer Stéphane ".
For his part, Raphaël Glucksmann, MEP, is also involved in this fight. He shared many videos as well as the link to the petition in favor of Laye Fodé Traoréiné on his Instagram account. Currently, the counter announces 223,000 signatures. On January 26, an appeal will be examined by the Besançon administrative court concerning the sequence of events. There is no doubt that these prestigious supports will be taken into consideration. They may also make it possible to alert on the situation of all the people that the French State wishes to return to the territories they had to leave, and who are, in this period of Covid-19, crammed into its administrative centers. (CRA).