Hundreds of angry protesters marched Wednesday between rue d'Aubagne, where two buildings collapsed Monday, November 5, and the city hall in Marseille. A white march was also held Saturday, November 10.
Ten days after the collapse of dilapidated buildings that killed eight people in Noailles, the popular heart of Marseille, hundreds of protesters "angry" marched Wednesday between the rue d'Aubagne, where took place the tragedy, and City Hall. "Blood on the hands, handcuffed" , "Elected, responsible, justice passes" : these signs set the tone, starting the "walk of anger" organized late Wednesday afternoon, at the end of the day. call of a "Collective of November 5" , date of the collapse of several dilapidated buildings of the district of Noailles.
At the slogan of "Gaudin assassin" , the demonstrators started down the rue d'Aubagne towards the city hall, on the Old Port, brandishing the portraits of several of the eight victims of the drama, five men and three women. Much criticized since the tragedy, the mayor of Marseille, Jean-Claude Gaudin, in command of the city since 1995, had for the first time acknowledged Sunday to have "not done enough" to fight against insalubrious habitat, the day after a "white march" that had gathered thousands of Marseillais who had called for his resignation, under the balconies of the town hall already.
"Merciless fight against the sleep merchants"
In a letter sent on Tuesday to the mayor of Marseille and Martine Vassal, the president of the metropolis Aix-Marseille-Provence and the department of Bouches-du-Rhone, housing ministers Julien Denormandie and the Cohesion of territories Jacqueline Gourault have " proposed the support of the State " , especially for the security of buildings, via a diagnosis conducted " without delay " , or for a " merciless struggle against the merchants of sleep " .
"It seems appropriate to quickly implement the protocol of fight against unworthy housing concluded [...] in December 2017," said this particular text, while stating that it was not "to do from Paris instead communities " . Tuesday, a series of searches were held in various departments of the city hall of Marseille and the headquarters of the social lessor owner of a collapsed buildings, in the framework of the preliminary investigation opened by the parquet of Marseille to know the causes of collapse and establish possible responsibilities.