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VIDEO. In Meaux, the Alsace and Anjou towers were destroyed

2021-03-07T18:43:30.636Z


This Sunday at 1 p.m., the two buildings in the Beauval district were blown up. Despite the ban on gathering to observe the


You didn't have to turn your head so as not to miss it: the explosion only lasted a few seconds.

At 1 p.m., the two towers Alsace and Anjou, located in the Beauval district of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), imploded with a deafening noise.

The two sixteen-story buildings were built at the end of the 1960s. Among the passers-by who came to watch the show, some had lived there for a long time.

“I had lived in the Alsace building for 41 years.

It makes me funny, ”says Claude, with tears in his eyes.

The urban renewal program, in which this event takes place, provides for the demolition of twenty towers. There are now four to be destroyed, which will be destroyed in 2024 and 2027. The cost of the operation to destroy the two towers amounts to € 11.3 million, of which 7.7 million are paid by the National Agency for urban renewal (ANRU). The rest is taken care of by Pays de Meaux Habitat.

Source: leparis

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