Guest of the show “On est en direct”, on France 2, the actor and director suffering from multiple sclerosis expressed his anger against the government and the new awareness campaign on disability.
“It pisses me off.” As he came to present his book She never left mepublished by Robert Laffont, in which he talks about his disability, Dominique Farrugia once again denounced the lack of accessibility for people with disabilities, at all levels of society, on the plateau ofWe are live, Saturday November 6. Suffering for 30 years from multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that impacts the nervous system and causes motor problems, the actor and director was very upset against the government.
Impossible for Dominique Farrugia to hide his indignation when Sophie Cluzel, the Secretary of State in charge of disabled people, also guest of the program presented by Léa Salamé and Laurent Ruquier, affirms that there is a “dynamic” in favor of people with disabilities. “The anger is there because I live it every day, because it pisses me off, because it pisses me off, the life I can have if I don’t have someone to help me“, launches the French actor before calling on Jean Castex. “What I would like one day is for the Prime Minister to come for a wheelchair ride with me.”
Open the debate
For Dominique Farrugia, the debate on people with disabilities is not sufficiently open and the government must go much further to improve their quality of life. “The sidewalks are too high”, impossible to “getting into an elevator because it is too small”, “not all buses are accessible”, many people “are unemployed”, “cannot work” Where “take the subway” because of their illness, he lists.