2023-09-27 17:14:42
After the riots, a call for help. Two mayors of Meurthe-et-Moselle, whose municipalities were very affected by the riots at the beginning of the summer, are calling on the State for help following the termination of their insurance contracts. “It is a cry of alarm that I am launching,” said Wednesday Serge de Carli, PCF mayor of Mont-Saint-Martin, who recently visited the Ministry of Economy and Finance. He calls for “state intervention, a bill, to not leave communities without insurance”.
The same goes for Laxou. Its mayor Laurent Garcia received a registered letter from Groupama at the end of August informing them of the non-renewal of their insurance contracts on January 1, 2024. The letter does not give a reason but was sent a few weeks following the riots which caused d significant damage in their communities. “It’s scandalous,” commented Serge Carli. “We did not provoke the riots, we endure them, we find ourselves sanctioned for disasters for which we are not responsible,” he lamented.
“We need solidarity”
Ransacked town hall, damaged school, dozens of vehicles burned… The damage is estimated at between 2.4 and 2.8 million euros in Mont-Saint-Martin alone. The town of 10,000 inhabitants on the Belgian-Luxembourg border is looking for a new insurer but the elected official emphasizes that “the risk is great of having a contract tomorrow with degraded service and contributions and deductibles which increase exponentially”. In Laxou (14,000 inhabitants in the suburbs of Nancy), mayor Laurent Garcia also “fulminated” when reading the letter from Groupama. “At the moment when we need solidarity, taking another hit from the carafe hurts…”. The elected official called on Françoise Souliman, prefect of the department, and hopes from the State, “either an exceptional envelope to finance contributions, or an insurance Grenelle under the authority of the Minister of Finance”.
Monday, during a question session at the departmental council, the prefect said she shared the “concern” of elected officials. “I have personally transmitted your situations to the office of the Minister of the Economy, and we are awaiting a response which I know will arrive in the coming days,” she assured them.
When asked, Groupama Grand-Est did not wish to answer the questions asked by AFP. Christophe Lezzeri, director of businesses and communities at Groupama Grand-Est, explained to Republican Lorraine having to “ensure a balance and perpetuate the portfolio on the number of municipalities that we have in the region”, affirming that the number of terminations was “tiny”.
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