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On April 6, a couple from Port-Sainte-Marie saw the hillside bordering their home collapse. A landslide which has since caused the evacuation of the home which they have owned since 1999.
They testified in our columns on April 11, a few days after the landslide of part of the Port-Sainte-Marie hillside. Worried, they impatiently awaited the arrival of the experts in order to understand what had really happened to them. The foot of the landslide melting day after day on their home, acquired in 1999.
Thierry and Daphné Moulin thought they would have happy days in their small town in Lot-et-Garonne. This was without counting the rainy winter that the department went through. It was a water infiltration that triggered the landslide. “The experts came twice. They are clear, it was the water that infiltrated and weakened the hillside. Today, the water continues to flow onto our home,” laments Thierry, retired from the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
Evacuated to Agen
Faced with the endangerment of the home ordered by the prefecture, the couple had to resolve to leave the premises permanently on April 17. Not without a pang in the heart. “We took the bare minimum, all our belongings are still there.” Luckily, they had an apartment to rent in Agen. “We had to let go of him, in the end, we kept him,” notes Thierry.
Now, it’s time for the battle with the insurance companies: “It has not yet been declared a natural disaster”, regrets the person concerned. If the village mayor continues to come to the news, the situation does not improve. “A person from SNCF Bordeaux came, he is worried, the railway is below,” confides Thierry Moulin. Today the couple says they are affected by the situation, hoping for a quick resolution to their problem.
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