VIDEO. Toulouse: the deadline of June 30 for the occupants of the “squat” at 36, rue Roquelaine
The DAL 31 organized, Thursday, April 21, a new evening of support for the families who have occupied the buildings at 36, rue Roquelaine in Toulouse for two years. They must find new accommodation by June 30.
An evening of support for the occupants of 36, rue Roquelaine, was organized on Thursday April 21 by DAL 31 activists. The four families, who have been living here since January 17, 2020, now have until June 30 to find a solution and leave these former premises of the Public Treasury left vacant.
A priori, the epilogue of a legal tussle that has opposed for more than two years the families of this “squat” and the prefecture of Haute-Garonne, which has turned in favor of the occupants. State services had indeed ordered the eviction of families from rue Roquelaine at the beginning of 2020.
The favorable decision of the Court of Appeal
In December of the same year, the judge issued an order granting the families renewable time limits until the State rehoused them in decent conditions. The prefecture of Haute-Garonne appealed this decision at the beginning of 2021, rejected by the Court of Appeal on October 28, which immediately took the decision to give the occupying families the right to stay nine more months.
“It is a historic decision in terms of jurisprudence, explains Louis Conte, spokesperson for the association which campaigns for the right to housing. This is the first time that a judge, who has referred to the cynicism of the situation, has given priority to the right to accommodation over the right to state property”.
“4,500 people on the street”, according to the DAL 31
Two years, the DAL claims to have “succeeded in housing two families, they were six at the beginning, today there are four families with five children left”. There are two single-parent families and two other couple families and a single man. »
For the DAL, which recalls that “4,500 people currently live on the street in Toulouse”, the requisition of 36, rue Roquelaine is a response to the prefecture.
“The cases of right to opposable accommodation have been positive for two years for families, but the prefecture has never respected their rights, continues Louis Conte. We opened this requisition with them to mark the occasion, they are the ones who asked us to help them take a shock action to advance their case. But the nine months expire on June 30.