About sixty tenants of a private residence in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille have decided to leave their apartment, exasperated by the violence of squatters, reports RTL.
According to our colleagues, these squatters are mainly undocumented English-speaking Nigerians who have gradually taken possession of dilapidated buildings.
In bar G of the Kalliste city, which has 129 dwellings, more than half would be squatted in this way.
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A young woman, Melina, explains that her door was blown open while she was away for the weekend.
Alerted by a neighbor, she returned home urgently.
“
They didn't want to come out, I had to hide at 10 p.m. in the hall
,” she says.
Another 24-year-old, Zineb, explains that she cannot “
stay in a place where there is no security
”.
She decided to leave her apartment with her family.
The squatters are ultra-violent among themselves, against a backdrop of prostitution and drug trafficking.
Gangs fight regularly with machetes in the common areas and seek refuge with the inhabitants.
“When they fight between them (...) They knock on the apartments so that one opens to them and that they take refuge.
Another clan wants to kill them so they want to take refuge with us”
, explains Nella, whose “
the little ones woke up in panic, paralyzed
”.
The mother of the family did not open the door for them.
In retaliation, his apartment was set on fire.
She too decided to flee.
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