Residents, associations and elected officials, including the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, paid tribute on Wednesday to the victims of the gas explosion in the rue de Trévise, three years following the tragedy and two days following the agreement reached for their compensation.
In front of the still damaged building at 6 rue de Trévise, where a very strong detonation caused by a gas leak had blown this street in the 9th arrondissement of the capital, killing 4 people, 66 injured, and 400 residents affected, a hundred of people attended the ceremony on the road still blocked by fences and fences.
“We hope that 6 rue de Trévise will be rebuilt in mid-2024 or at the end of 2024. Three more long years”, declared Dominique Paris, president of the association Trévise Ensemble, stressing the contrast between “desolation” on the side of the gutted building and adjoining buildings, still inaccessible, and refurbished hotels just opposite.
The mayor (DVD) of the district Delphine Bürkli paid tribute to “those who lost their lives, Laura and Adèle”, a Spanish tourist and a resident of the building, “those who gave their lives, Nathanaël and Simon” , the two firefighters who died intervening on the gas leak, as well as to “those and those who suffer and will continue to suffer in their flesh”.
The ceremony began at 9:00 a.m., the time at which the explosion occurred on January 12, 2019, in the presence of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo.
The PS candidate for the presidential election was strongly criticized by the victims for her management of the case until the agreement in principle found on Monday evening for their compensation, to which the City, indicted in the penal aspect of the business, will participate to the tune of 20 million euros.
Until the effective signing of the framework agreement, submitted Monday to an extraordinary Council of Paris, the victims are “still” in “the expectation of a decent compensation”, underlined Dominique Paris.
“This is the first time that a local authority is committed in these proportions in the compensation of the damages suffered by the victims”, underlined Tuesday evening in a press release the town hall of Paris.
During the laying of wreaths, Anne Hidalgo and her deputy Emmanuel Grégoire were booed by some opponents carrying posters “#ruedetrevise 1096 days” on the front, to underline the expectation of the victims, and in the hand of the pens, to incite the elected socialist to sign the agreement.
