Stéphane Burgatt, in Marseille 6:15 a.m., November 5, 2021
On November 5, 2018, eight people died in the collapse of two buildings on rue d'Aubagne, in Marseille.
The city commemorates this disaster, this Friday, while everything is not yet resolved for those displaced since.
Far from there.
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The city of Marseille commemorates this Friday morning the drama of the rue d'Aubagne, which occurred on November 5, 2018. At the time, eight people had lost their lives in the collapse of two dilapidated buildings on this popular street of the Mediterranean city .
This disaster brought to light the problem of unsanitary housing in the city.
Temporarily or definitively, several thousand Marseillais have been dislodged since this tragedy.
"Part of my life fell apart"
And three years later, the top of the rue d'Aubagne retains the scars of the collapse.
Frédéric Tchalian lived right in front of these buildings.
As this commemoration approached, dire memories returned.
"I felt like a shake. The walls vibrated, I opened the kitchen shutters and there, I saw this mountain of rubble," he recalls.
"These are images that keep coming back and that always haunt me. We had lived there for 30 years. I have done almost everything here. It is a part of my life that also fell apart that day."
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Impossible, for Frédéric Tchalian, to come back to live here, even if he has the authorization.
Today, there is only a hollow tooth left at the site of the tragedy.
All around, there are deserted buildings, the tenants of which are no longer there.
There are only a few owner-occupants left.
The feeling of abandonment of the last occupants
Virginie is one of them. She has been living a real nightmare for three years: "I was at the hotel for a year," says this teacher. "It's a battle to be able to return to my home. We did work in terrible conditions, without water, without electricity, without access to the street. We still have no help to this day. Me, I I'm all alone here. It's a street that is deserted, squatted in the evening. There are young people screaming and a small traffic that is organized below. "
The owner has received more bad news: her home insurance has canceled her contract and she says she is desperate.
Like another owner-occupant, who has covered its facade with banners, the very last inhabitants of the top of the rue d'Aubagne never cease to cry out their feeling of abandonment.