A hundred inhabitants were called to evacuate a condominium Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) that threatens to collapse.
A hundred residents of a condominium Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) must evacuate their homes urgently because of a risk of collapse, said the municipality LR Thursday. The city council has issued an imminent danger order enjoining homeowners and tenants to leave within 24 hours, following Monday's release of an expert report that the condominium "threatens to collapse," she says in a statement.
"Ideally," the hundred people still living in the residence had to have left by the end of the day Thursday, said the cabinet of Mayor Claude Capillon to AFP. They can gradually recover their business later.
A "degraded co-ownership"
Built in the 1920s, consisting of a hundred dwellings in six small buildings of four floors, the residence was identified for a long time as a "degraded co-ownership" , impoverished, so unable to maintain the building and to stem its unhealthiness.
It was doomed to demolition since a decree of April 2018. But this new expert report has forced the municipality to accelerate the departure of the inhabitants.
Families and elderly people without alternative accommodation will be temporarily accommodated at the hotel, men alone in gym changing rooms, detailed the municipality. It "calls for the solidarity of donors throughout the Île-de-France region to help find durable solutions for these families in distress . "
On November 5, two dilapidated buildings collapsed in downtown Marseille, killing eight people. Fearing new accidents and much criticized, Marseille City Council has since evacuated precautionary 142 buildings dilapidated or threatened with collapse across the city, and more than 1,100 people.