Almost two years after the disaster which cost the life of a doctor who died in the collapse of the building he occupied, Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille, takes stock of the progress of the investigation, the situation on place and the trauma still present.
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A stone's throw from the Grand-Place in Lille, on Saturday November 12, 2022, two buildings at 42 and 44 rue Pierre Mauroy collapsed at 9:15 a.m. Alexandre Klein, 45, a psychiatrist from Calais, on call that weekend in Lille, died in the collapse of one of the two buildings.
Two years later, a gaping hole is still present in rue Pierre Mauroy. Props support the buildings located at numbers 40 and 46 (numbers 42 and 44, collapsed, can no longer support these buildings).
“I think it traumatized us all. First, obviously, thinking of his family, of the different people concerned and then, thinking of these risks, not understanding how these buildings which seemed in good condition, very bourgeois, could be find yourself collapsing like that in one night”remembers Martine Aubry, PS mayor of Lille.
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Press conference by Martine Aubry, 2 years after the collapse of the buildings on rue P. Mauroy
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©France Télévisions. M. Vanlaton and S. Gurak
Two years after the buildings collapsed, what are the responsibilities? A first legal expert report has just been received by the courts.
“The public prosecutor of Lille opened a judicial investigation immediately. The expert submitted his report to the courts a few weeks ago. It is not up to me to share its content, which we have had as a civil party I think that Justice will very quickly close this first period and say whether proceedings have been initiated.assure Martine Aubry.
42 and 44 rue Pierre Mauroy before their collapse on November 12, 2024.
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© Google street view
For the past 15 days, workers have been busy dismantling, almost brick by brick, the buildings located behind collapsed numbers 42 and 44. The end of this work is scheduled for December 2024, before being able to consider new construction in place of the collapsed buildings.
“We had to carry out these demolitions for security reasons because they risked destroying buildings on rue Saint-Nicolas. And then because indeed, we are not going to keep this hole, like that, in the heart of the city . So, I know that promoters are interested in it, but hey, we’re not there yet.”
Since the collapse of the buildings on Rue Pierre Mauroy, nearly 1,000 reports of anomalies in buildings have been reported.
M. Vanlaton et al. Dry/FTV.
