On the first day of the Rue d’Aubagne trial, residents in search of “explanations” – Libération

Six years after the collapse of two buildings in Marseille, the trial opened Thursday, November 7. The 87 civil parties, relatives of the victims and evicted neighbors, but also a number of mobilized Marseillais, are awaiting answers.

The inhabitants of Marseille came in large numbers. This Thursday, November 7 in the afternoon, in front of the gate of the extraordinary trial room of the Marseille criminal court, a few hundred people responded to the call of citizen collectives as the trial of the collapses of rue d'Aubagne. Those present hung a green ribbon in their buttonholes, in support of the families of the eight victims who died on November 5, 2018, all residents of number 65. During the month and a half of the trial that lies ahead, they will take turns at the hearing, will take notes for citizen reports which will be organized regularly in the Noailles district, that of the collapsed buildings.

A woman has taken out a violin, she plays to accompany the town criers who read into a megaphone some messages collected from the people of Marseillais intended for institutions or families: “After the fear, the astonishment, the tears, we are left with anger”, “Neither forgetting, nor forgiveness, shame on them”, “We suffered so much from our city”… Elsewhere