The government assumes the expulsion of a convicted rioter and his relatives from the social housing they occupied in Val-d’Oise, said Friday the Secretary of State in charge of the City, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache.
Asked whether she assumed this desire to expel convicted rioters from a housing estate, Ms. Agresti-Roubache replied to RMC / BFM TV: “yes, for public tranquility”.
“As long as we haven’t lived next to families of delinquents who ruin your life every day (…) yes, they have no place in social housing, I have no problem to take it on,” she said.
“Conviction equals eviction from social housing, that does not bother me (…) When you are a parent, you have a responsibility. When you have brothers and sisters to take care of, you have a responsibility to stay within the law,” she continued.
A man sentenced to 12 months in prison for having taken part, at the end of June, in urban violence in Val-d’Oise, was expelled on Wednesday with his relatives from the social housing they occupied.
This operation, publicized Wednesday evening on the X account (formerly Twitter) of the prefect of Val-d’Oise, with several photos and under the keyword
“The purpose of this expulsion is linked to the fact that this person looted a store (in Deuil-la-Barre, editor’s note). It also turns out, in this case, that there was already another reason for eviction therefore, to save time, we executed a pre-existing eviction judgment”, the prefect of Val-d’Oise Philippe Court told AFP on Thursday, according to which the decision to terminate the pre-existing lease had been pronounced for unpaid rents.
On X (ex-Twitter), the League for Human Rights (LDH) notably protested: “By implying (on his X account, editor’s note) that this expulsion results from a conviction, the communication from @Prefet95 is dishonest. A criminal conviction cannot lead to the eviction of all the occupants of a dwelling: collective punishment cannot exist in a State of law”.
“The brothers and sisters do not have to suffer collective punishment for the acts committed by their brother”, also wrote on X the director of studies of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, Manuel Domergue.
In law, it is not the prefect who orders an eviction but a court decision, after a long procedure. It can only be motivated by non-compliance with the lease, such as unpaid rent, disturbance of enjoyment or acts of delinquency by tenants (wild mechanics, sale of narcotics, noise).
“The lessor can initiate eviction proceedings if the tenant does not respect the contract. We cannot evict someone without an eviction judgment,” lawyer Julia Courvoisier told AFP, insisting: “ There is necessarily a pre-existing (civil) procedure”.
It is only then that the prefect can be asked to provide the assistance of the police if the tenants do not leave.
25/08/2023 22:43:10 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
