The authorities evacuated on Monday for “serious and imminent danger” the approximately 200 occupants of a degraded tower in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), an operation which follows a series of fatal fires in unsanitary buildings, noted a journalist of the AFP.
After several months of legal proceedings, the Val-d’Oise prefecture and the municipality of Sarcelles began the evacuation of the residents of the Guyenne Tower, located at the Flanades complex, at 7 a.m. According to a recent expertise, the unsanitary conditions of this private co-ownership weigh a serious and imminent danger for occupants and third parties in the event of a fire.
Starting on the 17th and last floor, teams of officials evacuated the apartments one by one before affixing seals. Barnums had been set up in the shopping center at the foot of the tower to take care of the evacuees, who calmly took bags and suitcases with them.
With his wife and two children, Lounes lived in an F3 divided in two by the owner, with the other half rented to a second family of five people. Despite an exorbitant rent of 900 euros for around thirty square meters, this taxi driver only leaves against his will.
Several hundred euros in charges every month
It’s very complicated to find (accommodation). If we don’t have a pay slip that is three times the rent, we have trouble with the agencies, said this taxi driver who did not wish to give his last name. Co-ownership of the drive of 67 housing units and 17 floors, debt of one million euros, the Guyenne tower is one of the four residential towers of the whole of Flanades, an urban complex built in 1972 in the center of the Grand Set of Teals. Its occupants were strangled by charges of 600 euros per month.
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The overwhelming majority of people are cooperative. We have planned a large system, both for technical security but also for reception and support, declared to AFP the PS mayor of Sarcelles Patrick Haddad. Occupants holding a property title or a lease their name can benefit from six months of temporary accommodation while waiting to find new accommodation.
This evacuation was accelerated by the recent fatal fires that occurred in damaged buildings in Vaulx-en-Velin (ten dead), near Lyon, and Stains (three dead), in Seine-Saint-Denis.