Army wives protest in Paris, 🇫🇷 over military working conditions

Several hundred women married to French 🇫🇷 soldiers are holding a demonstration in Paris to denounce the "deplorable working conditions" in the army.

Mercedes Crepin, who helped set it up, said some troops on anti-terror duty were being housed in damp hangars infested with cockroaches and lice.

After the Islamist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, the French 🇫🇷 government deployed more than 7,000 soldiers to guard prominent public places and events‼️

"We feel completely helpless, we do not know how to cope with the condition, how to support our men," said Crepin, whose husband has PTSD after serving in Afghanistan.

Crepin also raised the plight of soldiers' widows, saying some are obliged to leave military housing within two to three months of losing their husbands, and get little help from the army.

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