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December 16, 2016.
The pupils of the Saint-Joseph private nursery and primary school in the town of Sallanches, in Haute-Savoie, wanted to alert the public to the heavy pollution of which they have been victims for a few days. A shocking and terribly effective clip.
A powerful challenge model
Savoyard students have taken up a trendy phenomenon these days on social networks: the “ challenge mannequin », A short video in which the protagonists are frozen like mannequins. This clip was produced to alert on the high levels of pollution in the Arve valley, where this school is located. Due to excessive fine particle pollution, the students have been deprived of recreation and sports for several weeks.
This clip, filmed in black and white, freezes the blood. We see children wearing anti-pollution masks, motionless, as if struck by a perverse and silent disease. We could not be more effective in denouncing what these 400 students experience on a daily basis.. “No right to run, no sport, very little outdoor recreation », Can we read under these sad images.
The most polluted valley in France
Their message: ” Stop! Pollution freezes our lives “. It was Vincent Hazout, the father of a high school student at this school, who had the idea to make the video. ” My parents left the capital and its pollution because of the asthma I had developed », He tells our colleagues from Huffington Post. ” Such pollution seems even more unacceptable when you live in the Mont Blanc valley “.
In 2015, the Arve valley was indeed considered the most polluted valley in France, by the National Meteorological Research Center of Météo-France. And this pollution is not without consequences for the health of children. According to our colleagues from France 2, at the Sallanches hospital, during pollution peaks, doctors receive 30% more children, especially because they suffer from chronic coughs.