The panic.
In Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales), 26 inhabitants of the Saint-Jacques district had to be urgently evacuated from their accommodation on Thursday.
At issue: demolition work that threatens their home, reports France 3 Occitanie.
🔴 Demolition of buildings in the Saint-Jacques district in #Perpignan this Friday morning.
They threatened to collapse because of the planned demolition of a block of neighboring buildings @F3Occitanie pic.twitter.com/IGKf0gTzRi
– France 3 Occitanie (@F3OccitanieLR) January 13, 2023
Access to this content has been blocked to respect your choice of consent
By clicking on "
I ACCEPT
", you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners
I ACCEPT
And to better remunerate 20 Minutes, do not hesitate to accept all cookies, even for one day only, via our "I accept for today" button in the banner below.
More information on the Cookie Management Policy page.
"We had no mail in the mailboxes, no mediator who passes to warn us about meetings or upcoming projects," protested one of the evacuated residents.
“There, really, we are angry.
» Reports from specialized consultancy firms warned of the imminent danger, but local residents were not informed.
No warning for residents
A block of buildings must indeed be destroyed.
But the project risks impacting the terraced houses, which are threatened with collapse.
The danger is imminent and the 26 Perpignanais had to leave their apartments hastily.
Demolition work should begin this Friday and last several days.
For their part, the inhabitants hope for only one thing: to be able to return home quickly.
Company
Rennes: When owners' odds and ends make old buildings dangerous
Lille
Collapsed buildings in Lille: Multiple causes known for a long time
Perpignan
Occitania
Languedoc Roussillon
Collapse
Apartment building
Lodging
Works