“I'll go all the way”: Deprived of heating for weeks, a pensioner suffering from cancer begins a hunger strike to protest

Residents of Aisne have been without heating for weeks. Tenants are exasperated. Among them, a retired man, sick with cancer, has even started a hunger strike to protest.

His daily life is about survival. In the Europe district of Saint-Quentin, in the Aisne, residents have been without heating for weeks, except for a few days at Christmas time, reports France 3.

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11 degrees in the apartment at night

Among the tenants affected by this problem is Philippe Moreau, a retired cancer patient. Huddled under several blankets, he tries to cope with the 14 degrees in his apartment during the day, only 11 at night.

To make himself heard, the man even went on hunger strike, until the deputy mayor in charge of solidarity came to the site on Saturday, January 4, 2025. He was promised electric heaters. The retiree agreed to start eating again after this announcement.

“We live under the duvet”

“I told my family, I'm going on a hunger strike, until I have heating, and I'll go all the way”, he explained to our colleagues. “We survive, we live under the covers, we don't open the door. In the evening, at 8:30 p.m., we're in bed, we're cold all night”, he lamented to France 3.

The retiree is not an isolated case: other residents of his housing estate are affected by the lack of heating. “They've been supposed to be turning the heating back on in the homes since the end of October,” a neighbor testified on France 3. Contacted by the television, the landlord's representative did not wish to comment.