In Lille, a new building in the city center evacuated after the fatal collapse

This is the third evacuation in two days in this emblematic street of Old Lille.

A new building was evacuated Friday rue de la Monnaie, in the city center of the northern capital, after two buildings collapsed in mid-November, killing one.

According to France Bleu, after the inhabitants and businesses of 46 and 48, it was the inhabitants of 44 who had to empty the premises after the discovery of cracks in the cellars.

An expertise carried out on the building revealed "dangerous situations" and three residents and a business were evacuated.

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According to the town hall of Lille, quoted by France Bleu, the first reports concerning the neighboring building of 48 date back to the fall of 2020. But the complaint of a tenant would go back to September 2020. The trustee of the building would have commissioned a design office concerning cracks in the basements but no work had been done.

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Collapse in Lille: a lifeless body out of the rubble

In mid-November, two buildings collapsed in the heart of Lille, killing one person, according to the latest report.

Rescuers found the lifeless body of a victim in the rubble.

The human toll could have been much heavier: most of the inhabitants had been evacuated thanks to the alert launched by a tenant, a few hours earlier.