Pierre-Yves Loiseau, who will purge his prison sentence in semi-freedom, is also forbidden to buy a property for ten years. The building, struck in 2012 of an insalubrity order and then in 2019 of a serious and imminent peril decree, was confiscated.
Le Monde with AFP
An old notary was sentenced, Monday, February 21, in Marseille, one year in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros for endangering the life and health of its tenants by not running the work prescribed in an insalurably building.
42 years old, Pierre-Yves Loiseau, who will purge his prison sentence in semi-freedom, is also forbidden to buy a property for ten years. Its real estate civil society (SCI) is sentenced to 100,000 euros fine.
The building, struck in 2012 of an insalubrity order and then in 2019 of a serious and imminent peril decree, was confiscated. Between 2008 and 2010, Pierre-Yves Loiseau had acquired many real estate in Marseille, founded at the head of 23 SCI, owners of 80 housing, “a frenzy of investments without any sufficient financial base at the time”, a noted the court in its judgment read at the hearing.
In this heritage bought on credit, the building of 315, rue de Lyon (15 e arrondissement) consisting of eleven apartments had been the subject in 2012 of an insalubrity order with obligation to carry out work to remedy it.
At the hearing on February 7th, Pierre-Yves Loiseau had explained that tenants and squatters had prevented him from involving companies. “They play ball and make barbecues inside,” he said.
The housing was not maintained
The Tribunal considered that difficulties were able to exist because of illicit occupations, but it notes, however, that “Pierre-Yves Loiseau does not demonstrate any approach to maintain or try to restore the property”, having provided nor Invoice or quotation.
More broadly, said the President Laure Humeau, “The property has never been the subject of rigorous management intended to ensure the occupants a healthy, decent housing and maintained in return for rents granted largely by The payment of home allocations on the owner’s account “.
Only two old tenants, a mother and his son who held the building until 2016, had formed civilian part. The Tribunal has allocated them to each 25,000 euros of damages for moral injury.
The former notary is known today without any income, at the head of a real estate heritage that he does not take revenue and impossible to resell, according to him, because “preemps at half price by the town hall”.
Three of its monopropi buildings and four others in which it has one or more lots are the subject of arrests of peril or insalubrity and so many investigations ordered by the Marseille Procuratorate for refusal of Perform the prescribed work.