a wall collapses near the keep in Châtillon-sur-Indre

The stone wall collapsed with a crash in a small street in Châtillon-sur-Indre, Thursday January 23, 2025. Two days earlier, “a worrying movement [une fissure de 10 cm] had been reported in the retaining wall located at 24 rue Isorée »communicates the mayor. Access to the street had been closed as a precaution, and rightly so. After the collapse of this retaining wall – which serves to create a difference in height – the security perimeter was widened and “access to certain street garages is now restricted”.

The mayor specifies that the adjoining house was cracked in the disaster and the couple of residents evacuated. The municipality began looking for an apartment to relocate them. “All necessary measures are being taken to restore the situation as quickly as possible.reassures the mayor, Gérard Nicaud. In collaboration with the Architect of Buildings of France and insurance companies, steps are underway to organize the interventions necessary to secure and reopen the street. »

Vigilance will go up a notch around the dungeon mound: “A clod moves all the time, underlines Gérard Nicaudwe will step up surveillance. » Several houses were destroyed on the street around the 2000s, which, according to the mayor, would have destabilized the remaining structures. The collapsed wall was actually the back wall of one of these destroyed buildings.