She died on February 12 in a clinic in L’Haÿ-les-Roses and in indifference. Except that of several neighbors of his city. But since this Wednesday and the highlighting in our columns of this imbroglio which is not the first of its kind, supporters are flocking to finance the funeral of Nicole Lemaitre. The body of this resident of Villejuif (Val-de-Marne) is still in a funeral home more than five months after her death.
In one day, nearly 3,500 euros were raised through the collection launched online by neighbors of this woman, the “neighbours of rue Mermoz” as they defined themselves. she lived in this city of Villejuif for ten years and became friends with a couple of neighbors, who took care of her regularly. A mobilization that even exceeds the initial amount set at 3,000 euros, to cover the costs of the funeral.
” I did not know her. I’m not from his neighborhood. But she was surely a beautiful person and I find it unacceptable that she does not have a proper burial, ”commented a donor. While many others rewarded their gift with a “may she rest in peace”.
“She embodies a tradition of concern for others”
Nurse then social worker, Nicole Lemaitre left Burgundy to be able to practice her profession in hospitals in the Ile-de-France region. She has “taken care of others all her life”, insisted Badara and Nadia, two inhabitants of the Mermoz housing estate who have been mobilizing for several months so that she can be buried “with dignity”, in Saint-Honoré-les-Bains ( Nièvre) they hope, where the family vault is and where she should have been buried. Both had already raised a thousand euros by going door to door in their neighborhood.
For these two inhabitants of the Mermoz city whose path crossed that of Nicole Lemaitre, it is impossible for this story to end with a burial in a mass grave, or in a square of the “destitute”.
In addition to her profession, it is the fact that she has Righteous Among the Nations in her family that has moved some people like this writer who prefers to remain anonymous and whose own paternal family was hidden in Clermont-Ferrand during the Second World War. world.
“She is a descendant of the Righteous and it is our duty to act for people who have taken risks for others, as well as their descendants, explains Carole (name has been changed). It embodies a tradition of concern for others. Alerted, the Unified Jewish Social Fund, an association created in 1951 to “promote the reconstruction of the Jewish community in France after the Shoah” meanwhile paid 900 euros into this kitty.
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