Piotr Pavlenski appreciates the cobbled streets of the Mouzaïa. The Russian activist, at the heart of the Griveaux affair, was accused of having squatted, with his family, at least two villas in this district of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, in the north-east of the capital, from July 2017. Piotr Pavlenski, accompanied by his companion at the time Oksana Chaliguina and their two daughters, settled in Paris in January 2017 before obtaining political refugee status four months later.
One morning in July 2017, the heiress of a house in the Mouzaïa district, known as a corner of the countryside in Paris, receives a phone call from a neighbor. Individuals, boxes in hand, took possession of the premises at 2 a.m. It is 11 o'clock. The owner rushes from the Yvelines, where she resides, towards the 19th arrondissement. She inherited the house in 2014 with her sister, after the death of their father.
Location and fingers of honor
On site, "a blonde lady" is standing behind the glass door at the entrance. It is Oksana Chaliguina. The Pavlenski family apparently took over. "The locks had already been changed," says the heiress, who prefers to remain anonymous. We didn't want to intervene, for fear of taking, I don't know, a stab perhaps. "
After a visit to the police station, the Yvelinoise returned to the address with several police officers. The Pavlenski couple presented them with “a pseudo-invoice that they had to have sent 15 days before”. On the spot, she also sees a man "bearded, anarchist type, and photographer". "They had to locate, it was well established," she says.
The owner evokes a “terrorized” neighborhood at the idea of living next to the squatters. “They called us to ask us to start an eviction procedure. Besides, the couple was apparently not very polite. The woman even made fingers of honor to the neighbors, from what I was told, ”she says.
"This story has ruined us"
Justice is seized by the two sisters. An expulsion order against Piotr Pavlenski and Oksana Chaliguina was pronounced on November 9, 2017 by the Paris district court of the 19th century. At that time, the activist and his ex-wife were imprisoned in the case of the fire in the facade of the Banque de France.
Pavlenski was also ordered to reimburse the costs of lawyers, ushers and locksmiths, among others, but being not solvent and having no bank account in France, he never paid the money due. "This story has ruined us, especially since the estate is blocked to this day for stories of notary," blows the owner.
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The latter even claims that the Pavlenski couple would have squatted a second home, still in the Mouzaïa district and belonging to "an elderly person long hospitalized", shortly after their expulsion.
