2018 collapse of the rue d'Aubagne

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2018 collapse of

Date	5 November 2018
Location	Marseille, France
Deaths	8

On 5 November 2018, two buildings, numbers 63 and 65 in Rue d'Aubagne, collapsed in the center of Marseille.^[1][2] Eight bodies were found in the rubble,^[3][4][5] when the search for survivors came to an end on 9 November. Over the following days, more than a thousand people, most of whom were from the ethnic minorities living in such buildings, were moved from their houses to safer accommodation.^[6]

After the collapse, the tenants of the houses in the center of Marseille cited laziness on the part of the town hall because most buildings in the center of Marseille are dilapidated and not maintained.^[7]

During a march to honour the victims on 10 November, which gathered 8000 people according to the authorities, a balcony collapsed, injuring three.^[8]

The Dilapidation of Marseille's Housing[]

The accident revealed the dilapidated state of Marseille's housing ^[9][10](100,000 Marseillais live in slums according to the Fondation Abbé Pierre, and 13% of Marseille's housing is considered to be substandard), as well as the mayor's inaction.^[11][12][13]

In 2015, a report from the honorary inspector general of the administration of sustainable development titled "Private Real Estate in Marseille" ^[14] ordered and made public by the minister of housing, Silvia Pinel,^[15] had already overwhelmed the municipality. It concluded that "100,000 people live in unsanitary housing in Marseille."^[16][17]

After the collapse, the Haut comité pour le logement des personnes défavorisées (High Committee for the Housing of Disadvantaged Persons) publicized on 21 November a report submitted to President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Édouard Philippe with the evocative title "Marseille: From Housing to Humanitarian Crisis."^[18][19] In the report, it is claimed that "the collapses of the buildings on rue d'Aubagne were not accidental and unforeseeable events. They resulted from a continuity of disfunction from public actors," thus pointing the finger at the City Council and the French government, reminding that "the prefect could have given the city formal notice to investigate the claims of the city's insalubrity."^[20]

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