It was the employee of a restaurant rue Lepelletier in Lille who gave the alert after seeing "a piece of wall fall" around midnight, after his service, reports
La Voix du Nord
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Two buildings on this very busy artery, which extends rue Pierre Mauroy, already collapsed on November 12, remind our colleagues.
The events occurred overnight from Saturday to Sunday and many rescue vehicles were deployed on site as a precaution, including teams specializing in clearing rescue.
Three buildings, nearly forty apartments, where 17 people were, were evacuated because of this "threat of collapse", announced the firefighters, two weeks after the collapse of two buildings which had made a died in the same area.
Three other buildings had already been evacuated by the town hall this week in another street, a few hundred meters away.
In the early morning, security barriers blocked access to part of the street, noted an AFP journalist.
They thus closed the entrance to these three buildings, a restaurant and two shops located on the ground floor, as well as a jewelry store and an optician located opposite.
The emergency services "found cracks in the party wall" between numbers 28/30 and 32, explains the town hall of Lille in its order posted on the spot.
“According to the employees of the Orange Bleue restaurant, the crack that already existed (…) has evolved and grown in the last 48 hours with cob falling”, and “crackling noises were heard” at the end of the evening, specify this text.
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