“The camp that has set up on East Lane is doing well.
Local residents and Livry residents, on the other hand, much less.
» Not devoid of irony, the “rant” of the mayor of Livry-Gargan underlines the fed up of a local elected official, who considers himself helpless in the face of the extension of a slum populated by “more of around a hundred people, including around ten children.
Denouncing “the slowness of justice” and “the complacency of public authorities towards squatters”, Pierre-Yves Martin (Horizons) has just issued a municipal decree stating that “the eastern alley is closed to circulation for all vehicles, with the exception of service vehicles, police vehicles, emergency vehicles and funeral directors.”
This road connects the Cora hypermarket to the Vaujours town hall and provides, in particular, access to the new Livry-Gargan cemetery.
Last Monday, municipal police officers installed “firefighter barriers” just after the entrance of the Recyclage France materials company.
Pierre-Yves Martin thus hopes to “stop the expansion of the camp and constrain the activity” of its occupants.
“The situation is becoming impossible,” he judges.
I made this decision jointly with the mayor of Vaujours so that we could no longer transport materials of all kinds to expand the camp.
From now on, vans can no longer park on the side of the road.
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“Presence of rodents, rubbish, risk of fire…”
Populated in January by around thirty people, according to a bailiff's report drawn up on behalf of the Vaujours town hall, the shantytown has expanded in recent weeks towards the East, as motorists using the road can easily see. ex-Nationale 3 which runs along the municipal road.
Beyond the issues of public peace, Pierre-Yves Martin and Dominique Bailly (Horizons), his counterpart in Vaujours, insist on the unworthy conditions in which its occupants live.
“Today we are faced with an alarming situation,” points out the second in a letter addressed to his constituents.
The living conditions of men, women and children are dramatic and unsanitary conditions/insecurity are permanent: presence of rodents, garbage, risk of fire…”
The two municipalities took legal action to demand the expulsion of the “squatters”.
The Bobigny court must rule on this subject on April 17.