“I'm sad“, laments Mehmet Yazar. Aged 73, the man had to leave his house last Tuesday, located at 4 rue Etienne Dolet, in front of the Janusz Korczak departmental nursery. “A bailiff and five or six police officers came around 10:30 a.m. to throw me out. I was only notified of the expulsion the day before. They didn't even give me ten minutes to get my stuff“, he testifies. While he thought he would be able to recover a few more belongings this Wednesday evening, as the SGP had authorized him the day before, an order was given to a security company to close all access to his house. “What will happen to all my furniture? I even had food left in the fridge.“, he realizes.
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Sent off before winter break
The day after his expulsion, this retired accountant did not expect such an outcome. “I thought I had won when the Montreuil administrative court gave the SGP a deadline. But, it didn't happen like that. Fortunately I had bought my office“, he sighs. Mehmet Yazar, in fact, refused the accommodation solution offered by the SGP in a hotel in Bondy, for a period of 11 days. Today he sleeps between the files of the firm which he has entrusted the management of to his son.
His expulsion comes just a few days before the start of the winter break, on November 1, and while the public inquiry, which ended on October 10 in Bondy, has awakened the concerns of a growing number of residents, s not only of the commune, but also of Villemomble and Pavillons-sous-Bois. A public inquiry demanded by the courts following the appeal filed by two residents, Mehmet Yazar and his neighbor Denise Kasparian, who demanded the cancellation of the transferability order for their real estate taken on July 21, 2022 by the prefect of Seine- Saint-Denis.
Both are the only owners of rue Etienne Dolet (a third having left), to have remained despite the SGP's expropriation procedure, the amicable negotiations having not been successful. To build the future Bondy station on line 15 East, the operator will create an area offset from the main site. A necessary operation, according to her, due to lack of sufficient space. Located on the other side of the tracks and the current RER E station, the 3,000 m2 plot will accommodate the living center and temporary storage of excavated material coming from the main right-of-way, via a conveyor belt.
In its judgment rendered on July 17, 2023, the administrative court of Montreuil had declared a stay of proceedings, giving a period of twelve months to the SGP and the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis to regularize the declaration of public utility ( DUP). A deadline which was extended until January 31, 2025 by another judgment of October 24. The court had noted in particular the substantial modification of the impact of the construction site by the ban on the circulation of trucks weighing more than 3.5 tonnes on the Jules Ferry bridge, taken by the mayor of Bondy in September 2022.
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“In this story, I lost everything“
While waiting for the regularization of the DUP, the SGP was however able to evict the last two residents of rue Etienne Dolet, previously financially compensated to buy another property. The administrative court of Montreuil, in fact, considered that “such a modification does not have the effect of extending the period during which must be carried out expropriations“.
The SGP thus summoned Denise Kasparian on September 3 before the expropriation judge of the Paris judicial court to request an emergency eviction, even as she was finalizing the acquisition of a new house. Aged 85, she suffered two strokes and was hospitalized in June. She only wants one thing: to turn the page on this “nightmare” as his daughter, Lydia Kasparian, who no longer wishes to speak publicly today, has often described this sequence. She returned the keys on September 24, before the intervention of the police.
His neighbor, Mehmet Yazar, waited for the eviction. “In this story, I lost everything“, he breathes. “My wife, who was fragile, committed suicide on December 20, 2020 when we were told that our house was going to be taken away. My daughter is gone. I found myself all alone with my son who works with me. I am very sad. I never believed such a thing would happen in France“, deplores this former chemical engineer who left Turkey in the early 1980s to escape a tense political situation. “But I will continue to fight and I will appeal the judgment of the Montreuil court“, he warns.
Requested by 93 Citizens, the SGP did not respond to develop its position.
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