The mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola proposed Friday, November 6 to baptize "
Place of November 5, 2018
" a square of the district of Noailles, in the middle of the street of Aubagne, where eight people had lost their life in the collapse of their building two years ago.
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On Monday, November 5, 2018, at 9:05 am, two buildings had collapsed like a sand castle, at 63 and 65 rue d'Aubagne, in the heart of the working-class district of Noailles, taking with them eight inhabitants.
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So that the memory of what happened rue d'Aubagne remains in the collective memory of Marseille, I proposed a wish to the next municipal council
", explains Rubirola, elected in June at the head of a large union left, after 25 years of reign of Mayor LR Jean-Claude Gaudin.
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This place had no official name, except the one that the inhabitants of the district had given it, the place of Homer
", continues the elected ecologist: "
I asked the municipal council to hear the voice of all those who have chosen to rename it Place du 5 novembre 2018. This name will be inscribed on our walls and we will never forget it
”.
Located at the intersection of three streets, rue d'Aubagne, rue Jean-Roque and rue Jean-Pierre Moustier, this tiny triangle has been dominated since 1803 by a column in homage to Homer, the author of the Iliad and the 'Odyssey.
The two buildings that had disappeared from the rue d'Aubagne were barely twenty meters away.
Contact case with Covid-19 and therefore strictly confined, the new mayor of Marseille could not be present Thursday on the spot, for the second anniversary of this tragedy which strongly marked the city and the end of Gaudin's fourth term.
But it had been represented by its first assistant, Benoît Payan.
The official decision to rename this place “
Place du 5 novembre 2018
” should be adopted during the next municipal council, the date of which is not yet known.
The next council was due to be held on Monday, but it was postponed due to the health crisis.