Hadja and her two children have lived there for three years. Including two, with a gaping hole in the middle of the living room ceiling. In this building on rue Tapis-Vert (1st) hit by a security order since September 2023, the beams which support the floor above (the condition of which is indicated by the said order) are completely exposed. Despite the passage of City services and a formal lease, neither the owner nor the community has undertaken any work or considered possible rehousing. A handyman brother-in-law installed two props to provide some semblance of stability to the cavity. The little family has almost gotten used to it.
“Large blocks of stone fell from the ceiling”
Until the night of October 9. At 2 a.m., while the mother and her two children were sleeping in the same room, this time it was the ceiling of the room that collapsed just a meter from the younger child's bed. “I got up in the night to get my son's cough syrup when large blocks of stone fell from the ceiling.Hadja rewinds, still shocked. Everything fell apart on the dresser right next to the bed where my son was sleeping. Within a few centimeters, I lost my son.“
The intervention of the marine firefighters in the middle of the night made it possible to purge the fault and secure the premises. Without allaying the fears of the mother. “The firefighters explained to me that the recent rains had accumulated in the floor above and that it had finally given way.she confides. Now we live in fear. My son is traumatized and no longer wants to sleep alone… We can't let people live like this. My children are 8 and 9 years old and need a minimum of security.“
