“We would have had a bottle of champagne at home, we would have opened it.” In Cliscouët, Emmanuel and Sandrine Renahy are enjoying the culmination of two and a half years of struggle to be able to sleep in peace. On December 5, the protection dispute judge ordered the expulsion of one of their neighbors for abnormal neighborhood disturbances, but they only learned of the decision a few days ago. Le Télégramme met these tenants of Morbihan Habitat last July, when they were experiencing “mental torture of sleep deprivation”, exposed to the nighttime noise created by this neighbor and his brother.
Concrete file
The rowdy tenant, arriving from Square du Morbihan, another Morbihan Habitat residence dedicated to deconstruction and reconstruction, arrived in 2022 in the Renahy residence. The latter, the driving forces behind the procedure, feared seeing the social landlord lose its procedure. “We said to ourselves “the judge will perhaps say that we had taken a dislike to our neighbor and his brother”, explains Sandrine Renahy, relieved. But our testimonies did not exude false testimony, nor racism, nor anti-disability, nor rage against institutions, nor antisocial, quite the contrary. Morbihan Habitat went before the judge after having exhausted other pacification levers, including the intervention of a social worker, which allowed a few months of calm. Getting to the point of bringing the case before a judge is rare. “Currently, we have six eviction files out of the 32,000 housing units in Morbihan Habitat in the department,” explains Gérard Ligard, the deputy director. There we had a significant file, with noise from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. non-stop, and it didn't just bother the nearby neighbors, but the entire residence, and even the neighborhood (on Fareham Square, Editor's note).”
Respect for the winter break
The tenant will not be evicted before the first half of April, with the winter break running until March 31. “The eviction will be subject to the agreement of the prefecture,” recalls Morbihan Habitat, “knowing that generally the tenant leaves early.” With the risk of moving the problem to another neighborhood. For Sandrine Renahy, sadness coexists with relief: “It’s true that we are happy because I will finally be able to sleep properly again. And I think my anxiety will disappear when they actually leave the apartment. But our initial wish was never to have our neighbor evicted.” Then, the tenant will have to be rehoused. “We don’t leave people on the sidewalk. He will surely be supported by an association, rental intermediation, underlines Mireille Jagu, head of social service at Morbihan Habitat. He’s someone who has a certain number of partners around him.”
