Judged this Thursday to squatted a holiday home, a 45-year-old server denounces real estate tensions experienced by the most modest on the Breton coastline.
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Pascal Bordier knows how to do with his hands. He rubs them against his pants, the tritches, and then stucks them at his back at the time of confronting the bar of the Correctional Court of Lorient (Morbihan). This is the first time that the seasonal 45-year-old is summoned by a court. Thursday, January 13, he appears to have squatted a house in Bangor, one of the four communes of Belle-Ile-en-Mer, for two weeks, before being dislodged by the monitoring and intervention platoon of the gendarmerie ( Psig). Now installed in Toulouse, the quadmenlay does not regret this “requisition”, guided by the “need” and then by “the need” to alert the difficulties in staying on this confetti of land of 17 kilometers long, anchored offshore of Quiberon.
Faced with the President of the Tribunal, Pascal Bordier is explained in a spa voice. The case starts in June 2021, when he arrives on Belle-Ile-en-Mer. The seasonal knows the places to have worked the previous summers. It finds a paid black server place in a restaurant, then plant its tent in a field, with other summer employees. Pascal Bordier then describes back pain and rain that comes upset the beginning of summer. On the island, it murmurs that dozens of houses keep the shutters closed all year round. With a handful of other workers, the server thinks one that it deems abandoned. The ivy eats the exterior walls of the house. The brambles snake in the garden.
Seasonal workers enter, do the housework and settle there, before preventing gendarmerie and town hall. “We did not want to disturb. There was no question of solving our problem by causing others,” he explains, before challenging the break-in as well as the consumption of water and electricity on the spot . Muriel Corre, the judge, Cut: “You have caused the owner of 86 years, who did not come to his home because of the pandemic then a fracture of the femur collar. Sir, are you A regular of these occupations without right or title? “Pascal denies of the head. Vincent Mailly, Prosecutor of the Republic, does not believe it and denounces ways of “corsaire engaged in an activist approach”. It requires three months of suspended imprisonment and € 100 in order to “prevent and dissuade” new requisitions.
“The story of Pascal is ours”
The shortage of housing on the Breton littoral, especially in the island territories, is a recurring problem in the peninsula. Pôle emploi leaders see one of the reasons for the lack of labor recorded every summer by tourism professionals. “Belle-Ile-en-Sea crosses a housing crisis that is more broadly affecting the islanders and plunges them into great sadness, takes up Julia Delalez, Pascal Bordier’s lawyer. This case is the symptom of a social reality. I myself , I have to share my cabinet with an osteopath, lack of premises available. “
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