“We’re still going to take the victory pot without delay,” slips a gray-haired man, smirking. At least that will be done. » There are around 80 of them waiting like him with a drink in hand, Tuesday June 16, 2026 at the end of the afternoon, in the René-Coty room, on the ground floor of the Senate. Most are from Reunion, the island from which they were abruptly torn away during their childhood or adolescence to be sent to France between 1962 and 1984. “We will stay until the vote,” warns Marie-Germaine Périgogne, president of the Federation of uprooted children from overseas departments and regions (Fedd), one of these former minors forcibly displaced by the social services of the state.
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