« Good news to end the year! A few days before the judgment in the administrative court, the insurance of (Breil-sur-Roya) finally agreed to renew the Town Hall's contracts for one year, particularly for civil liability and legal protection. », wrote the mayor, Sébastien Olharan, on social networks on December 31, posting a photo of the letter received from the insurer SMACL Assurances, dated December 27 and in which he indicates that three insurance contracts have been extended until December 31, 2025.
« This allows us to approach 2025 without fear of seeing our reception structures (nurseries, schools, leisure centers) unable to open. There remains the subject of buildings insurance for which we have no solution and which is the subject of our referral to the TA “. Sébastien Olharan explained on December 19, when no solution had been found, to have “ decided to summon our current insurer to the Administrative Court to force it to insure us for an additional year ».
In a press release released on November 4, the mayor of Breil explained that his municipality, insured for more than 20 years with SMACL, would find itself without insurance on December 31, 2024. He claimed to be “ scandalized by this lack of consideration towards a town which suffered greatly from storm Alex » and which became “ a customer at much less “risk” than before “. Breil-sur-Roya is far from being an isolated case, insurers being, to say the least, cautious with communities at a time of climate change and, even more so, since the urban riots of June 2023.
Photo of Front: The Christmas market of Breil-sur-Roya ©Compte X Sébastien Olharan
