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Seine-Saint-Denis: disputed evacuation of a 32-storey tower

2021-11-15T21:20:50.042Z


Several families were evicted Monday from a building in Epinay-sur-Seine for risk of collapsing balconies, a reason disputed by residents who filed an appeal before the administrative court.


Several families were evacuated Monday, November 15 by the police from a 32-storey tower in Epinay-sur-Seine which is the subject of an eviction procedure for risk of collapsing balconies, a reason disputed by the residents who lodged an appeal with the administrative court.

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At the end of the day on Monday, the police were present in the hall of the Obelisk tower building and a handful of residents came out of this large tower which overlooks the city, bags in hand.

According to a co-owner, about fifteen families were evicted on Monday.

In front of the entrance to the building, an elderly lady collapsed on the ground, in the middle of her belongings, before being taken care of by the volunteers of the Red Cross who escorted her, present for this operation. evacuation started at 2:30 p.m.

"Urgent safety"

"

The police put all the things outside, put us in the judo room next door and we had to do something about it,

" plague Ahesan Mohiuddin. "

Why are they doing this now?" We have to warn people before and not in the middle of winter like that,

”continues the thirty-something, whose parents and sister are tenants. “

They have the hotel until November 22 and then we don't know. We already lived in the street when we arrived in France, we went up the slope and now that ...

”, says the man from Bangladesh.

Residents say they learned of the risk of eviction at the end of October.

Built in the 1970s and made up of 163 housing units, the tower was the subject of two decrees from the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture for “

urgent security

”.

"

There is an imminent risk of rupture at various points likely to cause the immediate collapse of the balconies

", supports the prefecture in a decree consulted by AFP.

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This forced the occupants of the 59 apartments on the south facade of the building to vacate their accommodation before November 10.

For the others, the deadline has been set for December 8.

Co-owners have filed an appeal with the Montreuil administrative court as well as a summary suspension.

"

It is clear that the tower is not at risk of collapsing

", maintains their lawyer Me Georges Parastatis who relies on another expertise.

"

The prefect commits a diversion of procedure, he uses the procedure of endangering to implement a project of urbanization of the city

", he accuses.

Source: lefigaro

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