In Nice, the decision to evict a mother from her social housing following the conviction of her son for drug trafficking does not pass with the associative world and left activists.
Justice has decided to evict a mother from her social housing after her 19-year-old son was convicted of drug trafficking, damage to property and vandalism. A first in France. A decision wanted by its landlord, Côte d’Azur Habitat, following non-compliance with the new internal regulations that tenants must sign …
If the city of Nice celebrates “a victory” through its first deputy and president of Côte d’Azur Habitat, Anthony Borré, David Nakache, president of “Tous Citoyens” condemns this decision. “It is the very idea of justice that is at stake: we should only punish someone for the acts he has committed and not for those committed by other people …” and to add: “this The lady has not been convicted either in civil or criminal matters but Côte d’Azur Habitat sanctions her by inventing a new “social condemnation”: expulsion for acts committed by a relative ”.
“Inability to stem the structured networks of drug traffickers”
For this activist from Nice, it is also a diversion orchestrated by the City in order to hide its shortcomings in terms of security, its “inability to stem the structured networks of drug traffickers and to guarantee the safety of the inhabitants of neglected districts” but also its delay in the construction of social housing.
An observation shared by the socialist Patrick Allemand, former elected representative of the city of Nice. “This makes us forget that there are currently 16,000 applications for social housing pending and that we are very far from the 25% of social housing now payable under the SRU law (…) Reaching this end demonstrates the failure of the policy pursued in our cities for 13 years, ”he denounces.
The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi recalled that it was a court decision and publicly hoped that it would make “case law” before announcing “that they were not going to stop there”.
Indeed, since the reform of the internal regulations a little over a year ago, Côte d’Azur Habitat has initiated 72 eviction procedures.