Eric Verdeil is a university professor at Sciences-Po Paris, teacher in geography and urban studies, researcher at the institution's International Research Center (CERI), specialist in Lebanon and town planning in Beirut.
LE FIGARO.- The governor of Beirut has declared that he estimated that the damages in the city could “ amount to between three and five billion dollars ”. What to think of this first estimate?
ERIC VERDEIL.- It is difficult to comment on this figure for the moment: if the damage to the port amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars alone, we cannot estimate the damage caused to homes. Likewise, the governor spoke of 300,000 homeless people as a result of the explosions, but without specifying what he meant by that. Is it the people whose homes have been completely destroyed, or all those whose homes have been damaged? Beirut has about 340,000 inhabitants, and its agglomeration more than two
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