The City of Paris announced at the beginning of October that it would add 20 million euros to the compensation fund “without presuming its guilt”.
An agreement to compensate the victims of the explosion in rue de Trévise was reached on the evening of Monday January 10, two days before the commemoration of the tragedy, the City announced on Tuesday January 11, which will provide it up to 20 million euros. euros, and victims’ associations.
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An extraordinary Council of Paris will be convened to validate this agreement, “probably monday“, the 17, told AFP Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy (PS) of the PS mayor, Anne Hidalgo. The agreement contains the “recognition of the exceptional nature of the explosion according to terms which remain confidential“Said Emmanuel Grégoire.
On January 12, 2019, a very loud detonation caused by a gas leak blew up this street in the 9th arrondissement of the capital, killing 4 and injuring 66. Around 400 residents were affected. Gathered on Tuesday morning in a café facing 6, rue de Trévise, a damaged building in front of which the explosion took place, the representatives of the victims’ associations hailed a “agreement in principle“that they were waiting for”for weeks, even years now“, underlined Linda Zaourar, president of Vret (Victims and survivors of the explosion of the rue de Trévise). This agreement will coverextra-legal costs“Not supported by health insurance and mutuals, explained the one who was director of two hotels located opposite 6 rue de Trévise.
The City accused ofplay for time»
It was in one of these establishments that Laura, a Spanish tourist, died at the time of the explosion. Thanks to the agreement, his three orphaned children, then aged4, 6 and 9 years old“, will obtain the status of victims and “receive support for their psychological care“, advanced Linda Zaourar. “Operations have been canceled because they cost the victims far too much», Said Linca Zaourar again to explain the interest of the framework agreement.
The City, indicted in the criminal aspect of this case, had been under pressure for months from victims’ associations who accused it of “play for time“, while the contribution of the other parties involved, in particular the syndic of co-ownership also indicted and the gas distributor GRDF, remains confidential. “What we really regret is having waited three years“, said Linda Zaourar. “We depend on an electoral calendar and that is regrettable.»
Anne Hidalgo”has always expressed its desire to participate by any means in compensating the victims», Says the City, which recalls a letter sent on November 5, 2020 to Prime Minister Jean Castex. Emmanuel Grégoire announced at the beginning of October that the City would add 20 million euros to the compensation fund “without presuming guilt“. This sum is afirst stage“, he had declared. While the estimate of the total property and bodily damage amounts to 200 million euros, the town hall “will have to complete at some pointaccording to Linda Zaourar, president of the association Vret (Victims and survivors of the explosion in rue de Trévise), even if the other parties involved in the explosion – the trustee, GRDF, the insurer of the Generali trade union council and construction company Fayolle – also contribute to the fund.
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