Even before the court decision, the City of Paris chose to anticipate a possible unfavorable judgment against it. It will indeed provision 20 million euros to supply the future compensation fund for victims of the deadly gas explosion on rue de Treviso in January 2019, she said on Monday, confirming information from the Parisian.
The City will thus participate in the compensation of victims, which it hopes will be effective “by the end of the year”, “without this presuming his guilt”, underlines the office of the first deputy of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo , Emmanuel Grégoire. The Paris Council, starting on October 12, will have to decide on this participation.
Anne Hidalgo arrested on social networks
In this case, the City of Paris and the property manager of the building were indicted for “involuntary homicides and injuries” and “destruction, degradation or deterioration by the effect of an explosion or a fire” .
Emmanuel Grégoire also calls on the other stakeholders (the company responsible for carrying out work on the sidewalk, the condominium manager, insurers, GRDF, etc.) to a meeting “from next week”, under the aegis of the Interministerial Delegate for Victim Assistance (DIAV) Frédérique Calandra, “so that the entities involved fund and participate substantially” in the compensation fund. “If someone has been dragging” to set up the framework agreement, “it is not the City”, said Emmanuel Grégoire Thursday after arrest of Anne Hidalgo by Inès, seriously injured in the explosion, on social networks and in many media.
“Why not 30, 40 or 50 million? “
Still according to the entourage of the first deputy, the town hall received in mid-September, “after a year”, the green light from Frédérique Calandra for this agreement, “legal path” for the compensation of victims “without that. goes by law ”. But “why not 30, 40 or 50 million? », Reacted Delphine Bürkli, mayor (DVD) of the 9th arrondissement very involved in the file, regretting a sum” with a wet finger “and a” media coup “.
On the morning of January 12, 2019, a very strong explosion caused by a gas leak had blown the rue de Trévise, in the 9th arrondissement, killing four people including two firefighters, injuring 66 others and leaving some 400 victims. Experts appointed by the courts had noted, in a first report, “shortcomings” of the city’s road service, without incriminating GRDF. They had again pointed out a “lack of vigilance” on the part of the City of Paris, in their final report delivered in May 2020, and also questioned the building’s co-ownership manager as well as Fayolle, the construction company responsible for November 2016 to carry out work on the sidewalk.