"We're targeting the weakest": in Finistère, the merciless hunt for the precarious

On Patricia Koryga's computer hard drive, dozens of documents were scanned and methodically filed. One file was titled "RSA control," recording the months of hardship she experienced last year. This 34-year-old qualified translator, a permanent waitress in a bar-tabac, was a recipient of the active solidarity income (RSA). Four years "calculating every expense, allowing myself only one meal a day, only going out if friends invited me. I was just looking for work." In April 2024, a letterhead envelope from the Finistère departmental council arrived by regular mail. "To ensure the application of 'fair rights,' a monitoring of situations is carried out to verify that social assistance is properly allocated," Patricia Koryga would read upon her return to Brest, two weeks later.

The countdown has begun, the month allowed to collect the required documents is already well underway: “There was a quantity of