Floods: Gabriel Attal returns to Pas-de-Calais, victims are still awaiting action

It was his first trip as the new prime minister last January. Gabriel Attal at the bedside of flood victims in Pas-de-Calais, where the department is once again on orange rain/flood alert. The head of government returned to the region this Thursday afternoon. He will meet the residents and traders of Blendecques before a meeting with elected officials.

The Prime Minister will also provide an update on the work that has been urgently undertaken to combat flooding. An arrival awaited by the victims of the floods who have not yet finished with this nightmare.

A new phase of development of the banks of the Aa

“He promised to come back and he keeps his promise.” Vincent Maquignon, deputy mayor of Blendecques and victim of the floods, welcomes the attention paid by the Prime Minister to the victims. But while rising water levels threaten again, he is awaiting the launch of a new phase of development on the banks of the Aa.

“Now, we must announce the work that needs to be done urgently, let’s go! The studies are done, we know the environmental or other problems… Let’s stop going back to studies that will cost us an arm and a leg and which will not will be of no use since they have already been done, so let’s speed up the work”, he says fervently.

“There is a lot of anxiety”

In the Impasse Salengro district, drowned three times under water since November, Laurie, like all her neighbors, will plead with Gabriel Attal the possibility of benefiting from a system provided for by the Barnier law: a buyout by the State of his house destined to be razed in a condemned area.

“Indeed, this has been largely confirmed to us. My neighborhood, my house are not ‘protectable’. The risk is there, there is a lot of anxiety. We are thinking about the children so yes we must consider leaving. It is a sacrifice, but we must find a solution and not at any cost,” she explains. Fair compensation so that the young mother can finally turn the page on the nightmare of flooding