The 75 co-owners of the "Signal", do not yet see a way out of their business, six years after the State took a peril order which led to the evacuation of their apartments. The “Signal”, which has become one of the emblems of coastal erosion, is this building in Soulac, in the Gironde, built 200 meters from the waves in the 1960s and which is only ten meters today.
An envelope of 7 million euros was however voted in December 2018 by the Assembly to compensate the 75 co-owners. "It had never been done," said Fabienne Buccio, prefect of Gironde, on Wednesday, during his greetings to the press. We are at the final stage of signing the protocol ”. However, it does not venture to give a date for the payment of compensation, which will be operated by the community of municipalities and not directly by the State.
On this particularly sensitive issue, which had not been deemed eligible for the Barnier fund on natural risks, the State does not want to risk an odd situation. "It is good that there is compensation but that should not be a case law, the Signal is a special case", explained the prefect.
The building, which threatens to collapse, was asbestos removed by the State at the beginning of 2019.
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