An agreement in principle had been concluded, all that was missing was the vote. It is now done. This Monday morning, the Council of the town hall of Paris validated the framework agreement which provides for 20 million euros in compensation for the victims of the explosion in rue de Trévise on January 12, 2019, there three years old.
An agreement which the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo did not fail to welcome. “This is the first time in the history of compensation law that a public authority has participated in public compensation”, underlined the elected official, whose City is indicted in this file.
It’s about a “unprecedented decision” which happened “without waiting for the conclusions of the criminal trial which will establish the responsibilities” and in order to “to help those whose tragedy has turned their lives upside down”, has also declared the socialist. The mayor of Paris had initially refused such an agreement, fearing that it “presume his guilt”. However, she had been under pressure for several months by the associations which accused her of “play for time”.
This slow reaction has also been criticized by the opposition. Maud Lelièvre, elected from the modem Democrats and Ecologists group, thus regretted with BFMTV that the community had appeared “more worried about his possible responsibility than to provide a listening ear and concrete and rapid responses commensurate with this tragedy”. Mayor LR of the 7th arrondissement Rachida Dati felt that she was delighted with this “legal innovation” was “indecent”.
On the morning of January 12, 2019, a very loud detonation caused by a gas leak at 6 rue de Trévise blew up the whole of this street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, causing the death of 4 people, injuring 66 and around 400 victims. . The funds obtained will be used to cover all the bodily and material damage suffered by the victims while awaiting the criminal trial.