12 foreigners housed in an unsanitary lodge

In the entrance, a gaping hole between wall and ceiling partly blocked by what appears to be a mixture of cement and roughly deposited plaster. Just below, boxes attached with a lot of adhesive roll replace the broken windows with a double window.

Upon entering the Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt pavilion (Val-d'Oise), the police and city services quickly verified the suspicions of unsanitary conditions. A house invaded at dawn, Tuesday January 14, 2025, by national and municipal police accompanied by Virginie Prehoubert, the mayor of the city, agents of the municipality and the Val-d'Oise delegation of theRegional health agency (Ars), as part of the fight led by the Val-d'Oise prefecture against substandard housing and slumlords.

Twelve illegal aliens

It was neighbors who alerted the mayor of Saint-Brice and her security deputy. “We then took up this matter with the sub-prefecture and our municipal police, via long and careful action,” confides Virginie Prehoubert.

Besides themanifest unsanitary statethe agents noted that the pavilion was subdivided into fourteen accommodationsas many electric meters being installed on a chipboard panel fixed in the entrance. In the small rooms, several mattresses were piled up on the floor, barely leaving room to move around.

During their intervention, the police identified twelve foreigners in an irregular situation in the pavilion, reveals the Val-d'Oise prefecture, also reporting the observation of several dangerous electrical connections.

Administrative sanctions

At the end of this action, the prefect issued a prefectural unsanitary order and initiated an legal proceedings against the owner. “Saint-Brice will not let disrespectful owners live in social poverty. We intend to preserve calm for Saint-Briciens, daily, in each neighborhood. And we will start again as necessary in the face of such situations,” warns Virginie Prehoubert.

For its part, the prefecture recalls that “operations to combat substandard housing are carried out regularly by the State in Val-d'Oise with the support of the municipalities concerned”, continues the Val-d'Oise prefecture. . The objective being to flush out the slumlords who rent mattresses between 150 and 200 euros to foreign nationalsmost of them in an irregular situation.

“Slumber merchants are criminals,” denounced the prefect of Val-d’Oise, Philippe Courtfollowing a similar operation carried out in the neighboring town of Garges-lès-Gonesse last May. The State representative then underlined that “these are people who have no respect for the human person when we see the conditions in which they house their fellow citizens”.

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