(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #251 - Home to young
workers: Guantánamo in Saint-Ouen (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
After the popular districts of Paris, gentrification happens to the charge in the suburbs.
Residents of Cara home to Saint-Ouen resist eviction announced by the town hall, which is
definitely the poor take up much space. Result: unsafe, dilapidated, living conditions
increasingly catastrophic... But the resistance is taking place. ---- While all cameras of
the JT 20 hours are turned on drug trafficking as a result of social injustice of the past
fifty years, the home of young workers Cara in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) fight for
residents live in dignity within walking distance of the town hall. For over a year, their
home is wasting away with the approval of the municipal team UDI, more busy work to the
gentrification of the flea market.
Wanting to be part of the Greater Paris policy, the previous Left Front Hall (CPF, PG and
former Fase) mirrored on the arrival of the metro line 14 wanted to get rid of the tower
of Cara home to build a hotel for business tourism and leisure. A boon for the city
because the social headquarters of Alstom and L'Oréal and future Docklands accommodate
people wanting more "creditworthy" located in the perimeter. But what about the residents?
No alternative accommodation has been proposed so far for the workers most of whom are
newcomers.
The policy of barbouzerie
The home is completely abandoned: unhealthy, violence, deterioration of the situation...
The current town hall, arrival in 2014, does not help the situation, the mayor, resigned
from the presidency of the association bringing together the mayor and Saint-Ouen, Public
Housing, the housing office, leaving room for his safety delegate. Since, guards have
established themselves at the entrance of the filter and forth from the home. Residents
were used to host es friend in need or their companions and companions, since they no
longer have access to the building. The thirty residents who remain in an extremely
precarious living in terror of the violence of the security guards, threatening them with
a knife or require women to cook for them. Washing machines of the household have been
sabotaged, the garbage was not removed for a period, the household is almost over, leaving
proliferate cockroaches and vermin, prohibition of visits, lack of social workers. They
live in a real prison, one resident ironically summed up the situation with these words:
"Before it was Iraq, now it's Guantánamo! "
The housing in question
The example of Cara raises the question of housing policy in Île-de-France and everywhere
in the territory where evictions are underway, residents fear a current deportation in
June Emergency hosting solutions are provided by the LAD remains only media in the home.
The willingness of the residents to turn Cara activist held no longer finds echo in
certain political circles, an attempt to self-aborted had been "decided" by outside groups
but it does decreed nor imposed... Alternative libertarian supports in the home and
residents who self-organize by asking the question of housing, Grand Paris of
gentrification which the population of Saint-Ouen, like the inner suburbs, is one of the
victims.
Z. Marollen (AL Saint-Denis)
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