Sleep away from home to sleep more peacefully.
Monday evening, residents of bar G in the Marseille district of Kalliste (Bouches-du-Rhône) fled to sleep in a gymnasium.
For several days, individuals have gone so far as to enter their homes, giving families the feeling of having reached a point of no return.
As a result, five of them, “affected by these events, did not want to return to their homes,” said the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture on Wednesday.
Gunshots, attempted fire, squat… Tensions reached an alarming level in this sector of the 15th arrondissement of Marseille over the weekend.
“Fights broke out on Saturday evening between two groups of the Nigerian community: the individuals clashed with machetes and iron bars”, thus indicate our colleagues from BFMTV Marseille Provence, according to which “several shots were heard and two people were injured”.
Nearly a third of squatted housing
“These events were the subject of an immediate intervention by the police on Saturday and of a reinforced security of the places since”, indicates the prefecture in a press release.
This specifies that “judicial investigations have also been opened”, without however mentioning one or more possible arrests.
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The squat, on the other hand, plagues the bar of the building.
“Of the 129 dwellings in building G, which are not all rented, 42 are squatted”, admits the prefecture.
Over the weekend, Nassra had to pick up her parents and little sisters who live on the ground floor of the building.
“A neighbor warns them that members of one of the groups are trying to enter their apartment.
An hour later, she calls us to tell us that the apartment is catching fire, says the young woman at the microphone of BFM Marseille Provence.
They took everything.
All our things, they took them.
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The return of the inhabitants can only be a temporary solution.
"The objective is to completely demolish building G as soon as the technical, operational and legal conditions are met, as part of the urban renewal program financed by the ANRU (National Agency for Urban Renewal)".
Bringing together the conditions conducive to this demolition seems, in this context, a major mission in itself.
