After seeing their lives go up in smoke during the fire of the Monastery of the Good Shepherd, several members of the cooperative who lived there got robbed the few possessions they had left.
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“We are angry. We got robbed, though I’m not sure what they stole [vu l’état des appartements]enrages Pascale Huberty, who lived on the 5th floor of the building which was devastated by fire last week.
The flames seized for more than 24 hours the Monastère du Bon-Pasteur, a heritage building located on Sherbrooke Street East. If the Chapel was particularly known for its concert hall, it also housed the housing cooperative Smile to life since 1984, almost 40 years.
“We didn’t have time to take anything and anyway, we were all sure that we would be able to go home after a few hours,” explains Amélie Escobar, who had been living on the 3rd floor of the coop for almost two years with her two children.
Like her, several members found goods missing when they returned to their apartments to retrieve the few belongings that could have been spared from the fire or the water used to put out the blaze.
“People broke into our house and I saw that some jewelry had been stolen from me,” explains Ms. Escobar, who is thinking of going to file a complaint with the police.
For the residents, it’s a second blow.
For some of his neighbors, tools or money have disappeared.
“It’s hard to figure out what has disappeared yet, we can’t really do an inventory, but we found things from some neighbors in other apartments, which shows that people have made back and forth,” notes Ms. Escobar.
For Pascale Huberty, the news had the effect of a cold shower.
“The insurance companies said they were going to watch everything and we finally learn that people are coming home like that and stealing from us,” laments Ms. Huberty.