“It's scary to slaughter people like that.
It's filthy, ”laments Denise Tarnawski, 83, installed for more than 20 years in her little pavilion on rue Étienne Dolet, a few steps from Bondy station (93).
In her kitchen, a bag full of documents: “Instead of taking care of my grandchildren, I try to save my house by looking on the Internet and making files.
Do you find it normal to be tortured like that by the state?
storm this pensioner, I was devastated, desperate.
I said to myself "But hey, but they are going to buy me my house and I am going to go where?".
In June 2019, she learned that her house was going to be destroyed to make way for part of the construction site of the future metro line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express, this super-metro that will link municipalities in the inner suburbs to each other.
The retiree will be expropriated not to build a station but to install a storage area for rubble and materials, as well as a living base for the workers.
"We collapsed"
In charge of this expropriation procedure, the Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the establishment in charge of designing 4 new metro lines. And to inform the owner of the launch of the procedure… A simple letter. Stuffed with legal references, this letter announces to the retiree that she will have to leave her house: “The property, located 4 bis rue Étienne Dolet in Bondy, constitutes a necessary grip for the creation of the Bondy station necessary for the implementation of the project for line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express ”. A few lines later, the text announces that a land operator will be responsible for negotiating and then acquiring the property from Ms. Tarnawski. “As I read the text bit by bit, I start to wonder what it is,” she recalls. "You get something like that, frankly,you don't take it seriously ”agrees her daughter, Lydia Kasparian, who has been trying to save the house with her mother and two sisters for 2 years.
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Meetings with those in charge of the project materialize a situation that was up to now a little confused.
“We collapsed,” recalls the owner.
“Engineers are in their office, they don't come into the field.
They pull a train and tell themselves that they are going to take it, that they can sell it without losing money.
Only we are going to lose human lives ”, supports his daughter, who also regrets the installation of a noisy building site just a few meters from a departmental nursery.
"Because of that, I lost my wife"
On the other side of the hedge, Mehmet Yazar, 71, is also targeted by the expropriation procedure. “All of a sudden, we knew we were being kicked out. I was very sad because we have lived our whole life here. And because of that, I lost my wife, ”slips this accountant of Turkish origin. On December 6, 2020, his wife committed suicide, after long months of suffering. A tragedy that this father of two grown children imputes to his future expropriation. “We said to ourselves that we were going to have to leave, that our life was over. Especially my wife. She changed, had psychological problems. She kept saying all the time that we were going to be thrown out, she was afraid ”. The Société du Grand Paris was informed of this situation last July. "We can only be moved by this news", reacted the establishment,which indicates having proposed the establishment of a "listening and support system" for Mr. Yazar. The SGP also specifies that it "never takes a decision like that of land acquisition of housing lightly and without weighing the potential impact on the owners concerned".
On his phone, Mehmet Yazar unrolls photos of his happy family life and lingers on a snapshot of his wife, all smiles at her harvest of tomatoes from the garden. “We had another plan in our life, we were happy. Suddenly it's difficult now ”. All the more difficult since he does not know where he will be able to relocate if he has to give up his property: "It will be thrown away, I have a lot of things, where am I going to put all this?" I cannot buy a house now that I am about to retire. I would like to stay in Bondy, but only if I find a house ”.
Except that investors' appetite for the municipality is growing and prices are soaring.
The pavilions on rue Étienne Dolet, ideally located, were closely scrutinized by developers, before the announcement of the future site.
They were even willing to shell out over a million euros for each house.
An amount far above the rates offered by the land operator mandated by the Société du Grand Paris: "The SGP proposes to buy the houses, but it is three times less", plague Lydia Kasparian.
This Bondynoise is well placed to know the subject since she has had a real estate agency in the town for many years.
"It's a real estate transaction"
The SGP denies buying back these goods at a discount and ensures that "the transactions are carried out at the market price". On a booklet kept by Denise Tarnawski, a detail caught the attention of her daughter. Its plot and that of its neighbors appear in dark blue on the map of future infrastructures located around the station. Instead of the destroyed plots of rue Étienne Dolet, the legend indicates “real estate projects carried by the SGP”. "They are not hiding it", slips Lydia Kasparian. "They have the right to expropriate you, they become owners, they are the ones who value your property, and they say that it is" in the public interest ", denounces his mother. The Société du Grand Paris, for its part,indicates that "the land corresponding to the remainders not allocated to the infrastructures of the Grand Paris Express at the end of the works may be the object of subsequent resales for the use of projects in partnership with the local communities and not currently determined". More concretely, this means that once the site is finished, this land could be resold to build new buildings. “It's a real estate transaction,” denounces Lydia Kasparian.
Despite repeated calls from the land operator, Mr. Mehmet also refuses to sell his property.
The residents hope to be able to complete an alternative construction project that would preserve their pavilion.
Instead of storing the rubble and materials on their plot, they would like it to be evacuated further by rail.
A solution for the moment considered incompatible with the needs of the project led by the Société du Grand Paris.
