Those close to him feared that “his modest death would remain invisible amid the grandeur of the Olympic Games” and regretted “the silence of the City” after his death. A year after the tragic accident which cost the life of this Malian worker, the office of Anne Hidalgo, the mayor (PS) announces that it wants to pay tribute to him. “An alley in Square Marie-Curie will bear his name,” assures the municipality.
This square, which covers the Austerlitz basin (13th century), runs along the Boulevard de l’Hôpital. Currently under construction, it should triple its current surface area. It was a few meters away that on June 16, 2023, Amara Dioumassy, a 51-year-old construction worker, died crushed by a machine on the construction site in front of her colleagues from Urbaine de Travaux-Darras and Jouanin and SADE, working for the City of Paris, master and financier of the project.
Police investigations, labor inspection and unions have uncovered a series of shortcomings on this colossal project intended to allow the storage of rain and wastewater before it flows into the Seine. “The SADE truck that crushed Amara was not equipped with a warning or reversing cameras. There was no protection for the workers, nor marking on the ground for the machines,” points out Lyes Chouaï, CGT union delegate from SADE.
“We don’t want a side alley at the end of the park where no one goes. We want the main aisle, warns Lyes Chouaï. We are waiting for the City to give us the plan. » The unionist deplores “that it took the mobilization of April 27 and its media coverage for the City to receive the family and mobilize 11 months after the tragedy”.
Laurent Sorel, non-registered Paris councilor (LFI) present during this ceremony, had, before the town hall’s initiative, decided to bring to the next Paris Council scheduled for the end of June, a wish to rename the Marie-Curie park with the name of the victim. “Or at least one of its aisles.”
While the victim is buried in Mali where his body had been repatriated at the request of the family, Laurent Sorel also asks “that everything be done to support the entry into France and the regularization of his children remaining in Mali”. The City confirms that it has been informed of this question. “We can support this approach with the Quai d’Orsay. However, it is not the city that issues visas,” she tempers.
