The demonstrators denounced a premeditated attack.
A hundred people gathered Thursday in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) to denounce the “trapin which fell the deputy director of the city’s HLM organization, violently attacked on Tuesday, in the context of legal investigations into the past management of this lessor.
“It was targeted, it was expected“, assured AFP Sébastien Jolis, the director of the Public Housing Office (OPH) of Bobigny, after a gathering bringing together elected officials, associations, unions and residents. Tuesday at the end of the day,two masked individuals violently attacked the deputy director“, which was “watched at the exitfrom the lessor’s headquarters, the city said in a statement.
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Two hooded people hit him with golf clubs, said a source familiar with the matter. An investigation has been opened. Suffering from multiple fractures, this 59-year-old executive had to undergo a major operation at the hospital but “he is fine“, commented Mohamed Aïssani, the president of the OPH, denouncing “a cowardly attack“. “Nothing will divert us from our mission“, he said.
The OPH, which manages 3,900 homes in this popular city, also announced that it would “vote functional protectionfor this agent. “We cannot allow acts of intimidation and violence to become commonplace“, thundered the PCF deputy Stéphane Peu, for whom”there has been in recent years, in this city, an attempt to take over the mafia“.
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This aggression occurs in a context of judicial investigations aimed at the opaque conduct of the HLM organization by the former management, and by capillarity the role of the centrist town hall led by Stéphane de Paoli, supported during his campaign by the former boss of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde. By 2020, the city had once again returned to communist hands. In total, “13 complaints“are in progress in particular for suspicions of favouritism, embezzlement of public funds, forgery, use of forgery, specified Mr. Jolis, who affirms that at this time, “there was hardly a market that was clean“.
Consulted by AFP, these complaints dating from 2021 evoke over-invoiced services, work not carried out or contracts concluded outside the rules. The former director has always denied these accusations. The publication of a report by the National Social Housing Control Agency (ANCOLS) on the previous management of this DPO is also expected in the coming months.