After Bernard Arnault’s family, it is the Enfoirés’ turn to worry about the financial health of Restos du Cœur. The singer Patrick Bruel, in an interview given to our colleagues at Midi Libre, the most faithful artist at the great annual Enfoirés concert – present for thirty years – declared that the troupe of acrobats vigilantly observed the accounts of the charitable association founded by Coluche in 1985.
The interpreter of Place des grands hommes has of course heard the call from the director of Restos du Cœur and intends with his artist friends not to sit idly by: “We are thinking about an initiative, or initiatives. Everything about Restos du Cœur touches us, it’s part of our history, I’ve never missed an edition.”
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Initially, in order to mobilize all the Enfoirés, the WhatsApp network serves as a mobilization tool. Patrick Bruel details this first phase: “We are already talking about it, we have a WhatsApp group on which we all discuss: the artists, Anne Marcassus, the producer of the Enfoirés show, and the Enfoirés production team. We are preparing to take other actions, we will think and find solutions.”
This mobilization of the Enfoirés follows the call for help from the volunteer president of the Restos du Cœur, Patrice Douret, who has to deal with high food prices, a direct consequence of galloping inflation, and the ever-increasing number people suffering from precariousness who come to take or collect meals from the Coluche association.
Patrice Douret, faced with the gravity of this situation, has already communicated in the media: “Today, we are not strong enough to absorb the flow of people who need food aid. If nothing is done, we could have to close within three years. I appeal to the political and economic forces of our country to set up an emergency food plan”.