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A few weeks ago, it was a particularly upset Dominique Farrugia who spoke on X (formerly Twitter), to tell his subscribers about a mishap that happened to him. The great friend of Alain Chabat and Chantal Lauby explains having been humiliated by an employee of the Transavia airline. “Live my life as a PMR (person with reduced mobility, editor’s note). At Orly 3, a Transavia ground stewardess who sees me with my electric wheelchair says, looking at me: 'What is that?'. I try to answer and she says, 'I'm not talking to you. I want to speak to someone responsible”he says.
The welcome given to him by a hostess at the airport shook the web and the affair caused a stir, so much so that the company apologized to Dominique Farrugia for this inconvenience. This Tuesday, December 3, the one who was part of the Dummies troupe was the guest of RTL Matin and he took the opportunity to discuss a subject that is close to his heart, the treatment of disabled people in France. Affected by multiple sclerosis and forced to use a wheelchair, the artist who converted to Judaism out of love for Isabelle, his wife, and mother of his two daughters, Mia and Zoé, expressed his dismay . “I am exasperated and I think that the 12 million French people affected by disability are exasperated like me. Now, how do we mobilize?he asks himself.
Dominique Farrugia discusses Emmanuel Macron's promise
A complex situation and obviously, Dominique Farrugia does not really know how to make himself heard so that decision-makers take the subject head on. “Yes, we were made fun of”he answers frankly to the question from Amandine Bégot, who then asks him if he is angry with the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron: “I blame the political class as a wholewho does not see how we can, perhaps, achieve accessibility everywhere in France.”
Dominique Farrugia, who we saw very revitalized in On est en direct a few years ago, then discusses the President's promise to fully reimburse the cost of covering the chairs, which is slow to materialize. “It was unachievable from the start. This announcement was made, without really speaking with people who suffer from a disability, who are people with reduced mobility and who, once again, will pay the price of: 'We announce and we don't do it'”laments the director.
Disappointed and fatalistic, Dominique Farrugia draws a gloomy assessment, to say the least, of the situation of disabled people in France and points out the role of politicians. It remains to be seen whether this rant will finally make things happen…
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