It will be three years on January 12 that a very strong detonation caused by a gas leak ravaged the rue de Trévise in the 9th arrondissement of the capital, killing 4, wounding 66 and some 400 residents affected. At the end of a long legal battle, the victims should be compensated by the City of Paris to the tune of 20 million euros. Paris PS mayor Anne Hidalgo "asked her lawyer for the framework agreement to be signed today" during a mediation meeting on Wednesday with the lawyers of the other parties involved and victims, says the City .
This agreement should allow compensation to be triggered, without waiting for justice to establish responsibilities and in particular that of the City, but the victims accuse Anne Hidalgo of "playing the clock".
If the actual signing of the framework agreement still remains a "matter of days", it is "that everyone must sign", defends the municipality for which the opposition of certain insurers to the principle of prejudice. specific is the last brake.
For Linda Zaourar, president of the association Vret (Victims and survivors of the explosion in the rue de Trévise), this specific damage would make it possible to promote trauma such as "fear of gas, fear of the road, of having been faced with death ”or“ the fact of having waited three years ”for compensation.
But instead of the specific damage, the City is proposing an increase in the damage provided for by the Dintilhac nomenclature in order to integrate the “exceptional nature” of the explosion, said First Deputy Emmanuel Grégoire in an email to victims associations.
80% of sums advanced
Mr. Grégoire, who had announced in early October that the City, indicted in this case, would add 20 million euros to the compensation fund "without this presuming his guilt", ensures that the payment of provisions does not will not have to be voted in municipal council "for all the victims whose damage is not consolidated, as well as for those for whom an agreement is not immediately found on the amount".
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The town hall will be able to advance "80% of the sums without going through the Council", which will decide only on final transactions, specifies the City, which undertakes to pay the sums within a maximum period of two months.
While the estimate of the total property and personal injury amounts to 200 million euros, according to Linda Zaourar, the town hall "will have to complete at a time" even if the 4 other parties involved in the explosion in front of 6 rue de Treviso - the condominium manager also indicted, the gas distributor GRDF, the insurer of the Generali union council and the construction company Fayolle - also add to the fund.
