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Marseille: tragedy of rue d’Aubagne, five years later
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Five years after the collapses on rue d’Aubagne in Marseille, which occurred on November 5, 2018, the victims are still struggling to recover from the trauma. While some were able to return to their homes, others decided to take legal action.
Access to his building is still prohibited. Sejo Ferdinand and his family urgently left their apartment a few days after the tragedy of November 5, 2018. Inside, floors collapsed, the owner feared disaster and the occupants found themselves on the street with a simple suitcase. “My wife and my daughter are not well, they never go through that. They are traumatized”, he explains. For months, Sejo’s family wandered from hotel to studio, before obtaining temporary accommodation financed by the town hall. Today, Sejo and his wife are turning to justice and demanding 5,000 euros in moral damages from their owner.
Precariousness in the face of the housing crisis
The Sejo building is one of the thousands of homes evacuated following the collapses on rue d’Aubagne. Farid was able to return to his apartment last September, after four years in temporary accommodation. A return to bitter taste. During the work, all his belongings were thrown in the trash. “You have to buy everything: the box spring, the washing machine, the fridge”. Farid is at the RSA. He would have liked to have been better accompanied when he returned home. In Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), the protracted housing crisis mainly affects the most precarious.