Nicolas Dainville, the mayor of La Verrière in the Yvelines, calls on the State to speed up the reconstruction procedures.
Nicolas Dainville, the mayor of La Verrière in the Yvelines, says there is 20 million euros in damage in his commune, while two schools have been burned in the context of urban violence which broke out after the death of Nahel .
What damage has been identified?
We have a school whose structure is extremely fragile: some classes have resisted but are completely flooded, with a lot of soot. And we have another elementary school with 170 children, which has completely gone up in smoke, with charred classrooms. It is completely to be rebuilt. These are terrible scenes, it is an unprecedented trauma, they are teachers totally in shock, students in tears the day after the tragedy. In general, the advanced ratio is 1 million euros per class, so we are around 20 million euros in damage. For a small town like ours, with 6,500 inhabitants, it’s mission impossible to rebuild two schools on our own. So we really rely on our partners.
Do these partners include insurers in particular?
We had a hard time getting in touch with them. An expert came last Saturday, we are waiting for his return. We secured the place. We don’t have all the information yet, but I dare to hope that the insurance companies can take into account a large amount of work. We are also counting on the Yvelines department, whose president immediately called us and showed his support. There is also the Île-de-France region, via its president Valérie Pécresse, who came to the site and found a solution for the elementary school students who were burned.
Among our institutional partners, there is also the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin. We are also counting on the State to speed up the procedures so that we can rebuild quickly, within shortened deadlines, far from the usual procedures which are much too long and unsuited to what we have experienced. We are going to try to speed up the processes with in particular global performance contracts, which allow us to go faster, but that mobilizes the energy of all our services for a small municipality like ours, which already had thousands of subjects to deal with. . It’s extremely complicated to live with, but we’ll all get through it together.
What’s next for the kids?
We have found a solution to accommodate some of the students, but we are in the process of setting up a shuttle system, which is also extremely expensive. There are nearly 200 children, in quotes, on the floor. Some of the children from primary school will be taken in by our primary school, which has resisted, and the nearly 170 children from elementary school will be directed to the first-degree regional school, managed by the region, which remains in the town of La Verrière but which is about twenty minutes on foot from the district.