2023-07-05 09:48:57
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted yesterday at 15:53, Updated 2 hours ago
The costs of damage linked to the riots are already estimated at more than one billion euros. JUAN MEDINA / REUTERS
More than a week after the start of the violence following the death of Nahel M., many public services have seen their premises burned or devastated by the demonstrators.
A hundred public buildings have been degraded or destroyed in Île-de-France by the riots of recent days, according to a count of the region which will vote on Wednesday an emergency fund of 20 million euros for town halls and shops. Around 140 municipalities in Île-de-France, or more than one in ten, have been affected by the urban violence following the death of Nahel on June 27 in Nanterre, the president’s entourage said on Tuesday (LR ) from the Valérie Pécresse region at AFP.
In this total, the region has 18 damaged central town halls or annexes, as well as 36 municipal police stations, according to the same source. The region, on the other hand, had no estimate of the number of businesses affected which will be able to request aid after the vote on Wednesday by its assembly of an emergency fund of 20 million euros.
PODCAST – Heavy toll of the riots: “The bill of the vandals”
These traders and craftsmen will be able to request aid for an amount of “up to 10,000 euros”, paid “after the insurance in order to act on the remainder to be borne”, specified the region in a press release. The town halls, they will be able to receive aid from this same fund “as soon as possible before the intervention of the insurance companies, in the form of repayable advances”, in order to repair public equipment “which has suffered damage”, specifies the region. Valérie Pécresse went Tuesday morning to La Verrière (Yvelines), where 170 pupils from two destroyed primary schools will be relocated at the start of the school year in a high school in the same town which has free rooms.
Read also Riots: Ile-de-France buses and trams stopped at 10 p.m. this Tuesday
Public transport hard hit
Among the 450 mayors concerned received Tuesday at the Elysée by President Emmanuel Macron, nearly a hundred came from the capital region, according to an AFP count.
The riots have generated a cost of at least 20 million euros for public transport in the first region of France, according to an estimate Monday by Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), regional transport authority. A total of 39 buses have been burned in Île-de-France since the start of the riots, in particular 12 buses in the RATP depot in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) and 14 buses in the ProCars company depot in Provins ( Seine et Marne).
Ile-de-France surface transport, buses and trams, will return to the depot no later than 10 p.m. Tuesday, one hour later than the previous days, “to preserve the safety of agents and travelerssaid IDFM.
#public #buildings #affected #ÎledeFrance