“We spent the two months of confinement monitoring water infiltration around the apartment. To put towels on the waste water pipe of my neighbor who goes down into the kitchen ... Until the day when the pipe is completely split. And it was a disaster. " Chaharazad recounts his nightmare with great calm. However, since she decided to change apartments, to leave her too large F 4 after the departure of her two elders, for this F 3 at 4, square de la Dordogne, in the 17th century, nothing has turned round.
An amazing visit
“I found it normal to leave this big F 4. My two big children were gone. I divorced my husband. It was an opportunity to change lives, ”she says logically. Paris Habitat, its lessor, after five to six years of waiting, finally offered him a new address at the end of August 2019. “To my great surprise, I received a visit voucher for this apartment in the Maréchaux. But I was shocked when I saw how it was presented to me, ”she recalls. Accompanied by a replacement caretaker, equally terrified of the condition of the apartment, the visit cannot last long, as the rooms are devastated.
The apartment squatted for three years
“The previous tenant had stayed on the 6th floor for around twenty years. When she died, her daughter had squatted for three years, ”says the new occupant. The walls were black with dirt accumulated over the years, cracks everywhere, traces of humidity and infiltration punctuated the walls. Not to mention the torn electrical wires, the abandoned household appliances in ruins.
The managers of Paris Habitat promise him a real rehabilitation. "A new renovation" which deserves several months of work. “After three weeks, I am called back to tell me that everything is ready. I saw the result. Nothing was up to standard. I had the workmanship noted. But I made the mistake of signing the entry inventory ”… And what has become a trap is contained in her and her last two children, 16 and 17 years old.
A winter in cold and humidity
On October 30, she moved. The problems of plumbing, electricity, defective Internet relays accumulate. Winter is passing, freezing, for lack of good insulation. February 2020. The runoff from the kitchen pipe appears with its yellow flows. March is more and more important. And Paris Habitat's emergency and maintenance services seem deaf to requests. The firefighters called for help are "puzzled" by the situation exposed by Chehrazad, but are powerless.
During the thunderstorm that fell three weeks ago, the pipeline broke. A cascade of rainwater also invaded the stairs of the common areas. An accumulation of setbacks witnessed by the occupants of the building.
A makeshift repair was finally made to change the pipeline. But no formwork. No finishing. Elsewhere, infiltrations continue to pierce the paintings in the living room and bedrooms. Maître Patrick Luquet, Paris bailiff, noted all the facts. “The kitchen is totally impractical as it stands. The electric meter also took a shock and it seems extremely dangerous to me, "he underlines in his report.
Today, Chahrazad has packed his bags to leave as quickly as possible. "But I have nowhere to go." My children joined their father. The neighbor of my old apartment does my laundry. I heat my dishes in the microwave in my living room… I can't take it anymore, ”she says, exhausted when she had to see her lawyer this Wednesday. “And nobody from Paris Habitat called me to ask me where I was. I am marked by this indifference, ”she says.
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"The file is open. We are not leaving this occupant alone and work still needs to be done, ”underlines Paris Habitat, which admits that it did not intervene during the two months of confinement.