Visit the scene, Olivier Klein insisted that there was no pre-runner sign of the drama and that the buildings were not considered insanitary.
Le Monde with AFP
After the collapse of two buildings in the center of Lille, the Minister of Housing, Olivier Klein, announced on Monday November 14 a study mission which will be entrusted to a public organization to search for the causes of the incident occurred on Saturday.
“With the mayor of Lille and the prefect, we want to have legal expertise in addition to underlying work […] to try to deepen the causes and above all be sure that this type of accident cannot happen again Here or elsewhere, “said the minister in a press briefing before the rubble left by collapse. Mr. Klein explained that this mission would be “probably” entrusted to the scientific and technical center of the building (CSTB).
“It is a drama because a person died, but it could have been much worse,” he insisted, before adding: “We are not in a habitat area Insalubre known and recognized as we can know elsewhere “, greeting extremely competent health inspectors in Lille”.
à #lille with @MartineAubry and @prefet59 to meet the emergency services which proceeded to evacuations… https://t.co/gn091jxm8p
“No avant-courier sign”
Saturday, around 9:15 am, a building on rue Pierre-Mauroy, close to the Grand’Place de Lille, collapses and trains with him a adjoining building, in which the victim was.
According to the Calais hospital center, it is Alexandre Klein, 45, head of the mental health and addictology pole. But if it is “highly likely” that the body found be that of this doctor, it had not yet been formally identified on Monday morning, said the prosecution.
He is a student residing in the first building, who, with two other inhabitants, alerts the emergency services on Friday to Saturday, allowing the evacuation of the inhabitants, after having noticed that his “building had moved”.
“There was no avant-round sign [collapse] on the other building,” insisted Mr. Klein on Monday. “If there had been a danger, we would have taken a peril decree. Let us already salute that the firefighters reacted so early in the night and asked us to make this peril decree immediately for the building number 44 and the Evacuate, “added the socialist mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry. “No one thought it was going to collapse so quickly,” she said.
According to her, the scaffolding located on the 18th century building e century was going to be dismantled, after work on the windows and the facade. Mr. Klein praised the “clairvoyance of the three students” who gave the alert.