Should Marseille be placed under the supervision of the State?

Precautionary principle. Nearly 200 buildings have been evacuated in Marseilles in recent weeks. Next on the list is City Hall? Its occupant for 23 years,
Jean-Claude Gaudin (LR) is in turmoil after
the deadly collapse of three buildings rue d'Aubagne, last November 5th. Many are asking for his resignation. Socialist councilwoman Annie Lévy-Mozziconacci goes further: "It is a collective shipwreck, we can not be satisfied with the resignation of the captain. "

For the opposition elected, the state must simply put Marseille under prefectural supervision. This is what she claims in a forum published in Release, co-signed by sixty or so Marseille personalities. Annie Lévy-Mozziconacci:

Very few public transport, schools in a deplorable state and buildings at risk … Of its three main skills, the municipality is failing. I am a doctor, and I think we have to be consistent: when there is a medical emergency, we call the UAS. When it's a political emergency, you have to call the state! "

The deputy (LREM) of Marseille Saïd Ahamada also calls for state intervention: "When there is a lack of a community on a jurisdiction, it is up to the state to mobilize to replace … Especially when human lives are at stake! In Marseille, there are objective and external interlocutors who put the means to solve this problem of degraded housing! "

No legally possible trusteeship

A trusteeship is however impossible legally, says the public law professor Yves Luchaire, consulted by 20 minutes : "This procedure existed in the past: Marseille was placed under guardianship in 1938, after the fire of the New Galleries, explains the professor of Sciences Po Aix. But that does not exist anymore today. "

For him, there is a mistake with the "financial supervision", the only possible one: "When a municipality does not vote the budget or vote a budget that is not sincere, the prefecture can put it under financial supervision. There are no other devices, "even if the prefecture can accompany a municipality when it notices a deficiency," it is said to the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhone.

This is the wish of several politicians interviewed. Few are in favor of this idea of ​​"guardianship" but all say that the state must "help" Marseille to fight against unworthy and / or dangerous housing. For regional president Renaud Muselier (LR), former close to Jean-Claude Gaudin, "we must bring competent external services, because those of the city of Marseille are not … I, in the region, I refuse to work with some services! "

MP Alexandra Louis (LREM) shares this diagnosis, particularly on the issue of real estate expertise carried out by the town hall in terms of peril: "We saw that they were not effective … There have been more than a thousand people evacuated in disaster after the tragedy of the rue d'Aubagne … These 200 buildings did not fall into ruin in a fortnight, they have been dangerous for a long time! "

"What's needed is action … Finally! "

For Alexandra Louis, the state, via the prefecture, must now verify that the Marseille city hall is doing its job properly:

The state must be a pilot, it must coordinate a system that must be absolutely transparent. Today, it is very opaque: nobody knows that the town hall was seized for this or that building. If the prefecture were informed, she could follow the file until the decision! "

Jean-Luc Mélenchon's deputy, Sophie Camard, (La France Insoumise) goes further: for her, it is necessary to create a public institution of cooperation, bringing together local authorities, state and social landlords. "Like Euroméditerranée, except that the idea would be to rebuild Marseille and build housing, not offices," she illustrates. In any case, it shares the idea of ​​urgency expressed by Annie Lévy-Mozziconacci and the signatories of the podium in Release : "What is needed is action … Finally! "