“We are aware that we are managing much more than concrete and housing. We have lives in our hands. » Sitting side by side at an office table with a view of Bourges Cathedral, Benoît Lemaigre and Emmanuel Riotte, respectively general director of Val de Berry and president of the public social landlord, measure themselves a little further, by the yardstick of the rue d’Aubagne trial which opened on November 7, in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), the weight of responsibilities on their shoulders in the management of the Cher HLM park.
Six years after the collapse, in the Noailles district, of two dilapidated buildings in which eight occupants died, this trial, during which sixteen defendants are judged, must determine responsibilities in this Marseille tragedy. And unfortunately not the last.
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In June 2021, two buildings collapsed in Bordeaux. Results: three injured. In November 2022, two new buildings collapsed in Lille. A dead man. If Benoît Lemaigre and Emmanuel Riotte draw the parallel with “these human tragedies”, it is because both men are convinced of it:
“Bourges could have extended this blacklist. At the Airport, we avoided another street in Aubagne which could have been even more dramatic. »
The Airport is the name of this district located at the end of the runway and at the western entrance to the Cher prefecture. A garden city that emerged from the ground in the 1930s, then a model of social architecture, made up of pavilions and buildings, and which became at the end of 2022 THE file to be dealt with “in absolute urgency” summarizes the general director of Val de Berry.
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