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08:47: Update on the investigation
“We very quickly smelled a strong smell of gas, which remained and which we smelled again this morning”, thus indicated Savera Mosnier, resident of a nearby street… All the sources therefore insist on the difference with a precedent collapse of two buildings, these unsanitary ones, in November 2018, rue d’Aubagne, in another district of central Marseille.
This tragedy left eight dead and traumatized the population, sparking a wave of indignation against poor housing in this city where 40,000 people live in slums, according to NGOs. “These are not unsanitary buildings at all”, underlined the prosecutor, while Benoît Payan hammered that “to draw a parallel (with rue d’Aubagne) would be irresponsible”.