Not Hausdorff quotient by a properly discontinuous action

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I can't find a counterexample to this sentence:

Let $X$ be a $T2$ topological space, and $G \subset Hom(X)$ be a group of homeomorphisms which acts properly discontinuously on X (i.e. $\forall x \in X \ \ \exists U$ neighborhood of $x$ such that $\forall g \in G\setminus \{id\} \ \ g(U) \cap U=\varnothing).$ Then the quotient $X/G$ is $T2.$

The following theorem gives me some hints about what to avoid while making the counterexample :

Let $A \subset X$ (with $X$ Hausdorff) be an open set such that: $A$ intersects every orbit of $G,$ and $A \cap g(A) \neq \varnothing$ for a finite quantity of $g \in G.$ Then $X/G$ is $T2.$

Clearly $G$ cannot be finite, otherwise the quotient is automatically $T2,$ taking $A=X.$ Moreover, this condition is somehow similar to the hypothesis of properly discontinuous action, and I can't find an example where they don't "coincide". Do you have some hints? Thanks to everybody.

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This contradicts the theorem you posted, so I'm not sure if our definitions of properly discontinuous actions are the same. Anyhow,

$\mathbb{Z}/2$ acts on the disjoint union of $\mathbb{R} \times \{a\}$ and $\mathbb{R} \times \{b\}$ by $g \cdot (0, a) = (0, a), g \cdot (0, b) = (0, b)$, and otherwise $g \cdot (t, a) = (t, b)$ and vice-versa. This is a properly discontinuous action (the group is finite). Furthermore, the original space is certainly Hausdorff in the disjoint union topology; the resulting space is the line with two origins which is not Hausdorff at the origins.