"It is no longer possible, we have all been waiting for compensation for months, we are being taken by boat" tells an exasperated Inès, one of the victims of the explosion which blew the rue de Trévise, in Paris, in January. 2019. From her room in a hospital in the capital, she tells her story on social networks and regularly calls out to the mayor, Anne Hidalgo.
“Anne is Ines”: the name of her Twitter account sets the tone.
After having already undergone 41 operations in different hospitals, the law student who dreams of becoming a prosecutor is not fading.
For her, as for all the other victims of the day of the tragedy, compensation becomes urgent.
“It's the only way we have to rebuild ourselves.
And also because it is a right, after all that we have lived, we have the right to be compensated, it is time ”explains Inès, for whom the financial situation has become complicated.
To look after her bedside and accompany her in her daily care, her mother, Dounia, had to give up her job and sell her car.
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And for good reason, since January 12, 2019, the physical sequelae of Inès are numerous. His legs were badly damaged. “The doctors had to rebuild everything. The operation lasted for hours and since then they have been trying to remove the burnt skin. I already know when my forty-second operation will be and if my calculations are correct, I know when the next two will take place. I already know my program for next year ... »sighs the young woman who understands that her rehabilitation is not an easy task. Every time she makes progress, she has to go back to the operating room and not exercise for weeks. At the same time, she struggles to write as she would like, her right hand having been injured.
Thirty-four months after the explosion which killed four people, injured nearly seventy people, and left some 400 victims and a total of a thousand victims, a compensation agreement could be signed in the days or weeks to come .
In any case, this is what Frédérique Calandra, the interministerial delegate for victim assistance, announced in September.
It is also necessary that the framework agreement be signed by the town hall of Paris.