nearly 7 out of 10 dwellings are not up to standard

The figure challenges. Nearly 7 homes out of 10 in France are equipped with a non-compliant electrical installation likely to cause an accident, as noted on Parisien . According to the think tank on electrical safety in housing (Gresel), which publishes a report Wednesday on the issue, some 200,000 domestic fires occur each year in France and 50,000 can be directly attributed to an electrical problem, "as equipment or faulty plugs ", specifies in the columns of Parisien Laurent Lhardit, secretary of Gresel. For the community, the cost is about 4.2 billion euros, says the experts.

40 deaths each year because of electrification. And substandard housing does not just have an anomaly. According to the Gresel, the average is 3.4 for defective housing. Some 3,000 people are affected each year by electrification and 40 die

"The number of victims could still be significantly reduced" For about forty years, and the reinforcement of regulations, the number of deaths has been divided by five. "But the number of victims could still greatly decrease if all the electrical equipment was really secure," said the authors of the study.

The owner of a defective rented housing can be tried in correctional. As the Parisien points out in the event of a serious accident related to a non-compliant installation, the owner of a rented dwelling can now be tried in correctional matters. At the beginning of the year, the Court of Cbadation considered that the absence of certain mandatory safety equipment was a matter of "endangering the life of others".