It's a rare decision. This week, Jean-Marc Tellier, Mayor of the town of Avion in the Pas-de-Calais, decided to evacuate a HLM tower in his city and relocate the 40 tenants there. In question: the perpetual degradation suffered by the building, which end up putting the inhabitants in danger.
The HLM tower is indeed "victim of squats, degradations, fires", details the city councilor at the microphone of Europe 1. "We worked a lot with the services of the State, the police, the lessor. Each time, we sat around a table, took the measurements, it lasted a while, and ten days ago things started again. " With, this time, an escalation of the violence and the dangerousness induced by the degradations. "We went over the limits because there were gas columns, a fire, it's been three times that firefighters intervene in ten days, so I considered that people were not safe anymore and I took this decree. "
Residents "happy"
The order orders the relocation of 40 tenants, in consultation with the lessor who has undertaken to take charge of the move. Residents today relieved, according to Jean-Marc Tellier. "They are happy because they put themselves in the perspective of being able to go elsewhere." And the mayor to give the example of this "lady who lives on the seventh floor, who is 96 years old". "She has been living in her apartment for 33 years, she has always lived in the neighborhood, she told us that she would stay well but hey, she understood that she had to move for security reasons. we are going to make every effort to accompany him, help him to move, "explains Jean-Marc Tellier. This lady, like the other inhabitants, "must find a quiet living environment".