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French media report: Households in France lacking heat

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 15 Nov 2022 15:34
3 Min Read

French media sheds the light on households in France that are suffering from heat deprivation despite paying energy bills.

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    French households are deprived of heat as the country is facing a staggering economic crisis.

French media addressed on Tuesday the suffering of low-income individuals in France and their deprivation of heating, especially in popular housing in the city of Amiens, where the temperature reaches 12 degrees Celsius inside homes, despite people having paid energy subscriptions.

French channel BFMTV spoke to one of the residents of Amiens, Natalie, who revealed that she had been using cooking gas for heating.

Natalie pointed out that the reason was the delay in rehabilitation work in her low-income home in Amiens, saying that she "has not had heating in her house for two months while the temperature reaches 12 degrees in her apartment."

12°C dans des HLM d'Amiens: les habitants privés de chauffage mais obligés de payer pic.twitter.com/GQJQ6Gveoi

— BFMTV (@BFMTV) November 15, 2022

Many French cities suffer from a decrease in local heating, while analysts said that this comes as a result of France's foreign policy stances toward Russia.

In a statement made in October, Hendrik Neumann, chief technical officer of Germany's main grid operator Amprion, said that the energy crisis Germany and the rest of the EU are facing is not entirely resulting from the Ukraine war, but rather comes as "overlapping issues" become more prominent.

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The gas operator in the European Union announced on November 6 that five countries began using their gas reserves, although they had saved them to cover the winter deficit following sanctions against Russia.

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