Till a few months ago he was having his office in the «Maison des Ensembles» a squat in Paris of immigrants without legal permit, but the police expelled them and his office. On May 2000, the President of the Conference of the Bishops of France on the occasion of the Jubilee took the initiative to invite him to an ecumenical meeting in Lyon.
En mayo de 2000, con ocasión del Jubileo., el Presidente de la Conferencia de los Obispos de Francia tomó la iniciativa de invitarle a Lyón para un encuentro ecuménico con los obispos y le remitió una carta que se hizo pública: