On November 5, 2018, just a few hours after the collapses on rue d'Aubagne, while the emergency services were still desperately looking for signs of life in the rubble, the Gaudin majority caused astonishment and anger by evoking “heavy rain” from the previous days to explain the tragedy.
A thesis of the natural disaster, immodestly intended to divert attention from the City's negligence in terms of substandard housing, denounced with slogans and banners brandished under the windows of the town hall during the major demonstrations following the events . Before being largely defeated by the investigators and then the magistrates of the collective accidents center.
“In no case the trigger”
Six years later, this rain track returns, almost as an aside, to the bar of the criminal court. Without much more success with the two experts appointed to carry out a geotechnical study. “Your rainfall research shows that in October 2018, there was 263 millimeters (rain). An increase of 291% compared to fall 2017“, summarizes President Pascal Ghent.
