Menacés d’expulsion par le Crous de Bordeaux, des étudiants refusent de rendre leurs clés
Since this summer, students from the Bordeaux-Montaigne campus, in Pessac, have been in conflict with the Crous Bordeaux Aquitaine. Having lost their rights to housing in a university residence, they are threatened with evictions.
For a week, even without electricity, they continue to occupy their rooms in Village 5, in Pessac. For fear of seeing “the locks changed”, they “don’t dare go out any more”. Thursday, September 8, students threatened with expulsion by the Crous organized a press conference with the Le Poing Levé collective. To date, 7 students “block” their rooms.
“No valid reason”
It all started last June. Due to works in Village 6, students have to leave their rooms. After a mobilization of the students, the Crous grants them temporary accommodation in Village 5. The keys must be returned on August 31. As the start of the school year approaches, students are not readmitted to the allocation of housing, “without equivalent rehousing”. Aurélien is 25 years old, he is a computer science student:
“We ended up with absurd proposals for relocation, such as a week to ten days paid in a youth hostel. I was also offered a sublease with an elderly person at 600 euros per month. »
According to Jahan Lutz, an activist with the Le Poing Levé collective, the Crous has “no valid reason put forward to justify the expulsions”:
“23 students were threatened and 16 have already been expelled, one is on the street, the other in a squat. Seven others refuse to give up their rooms. Requests have been refused because the Student Social File was filed too late or because students have been housed for more than 5 years by the Crous. They are mostly foreign students, in precarious situations. »
Place of a bailiff
The students explain that they have received “no expulsion notice”. On September 1, they received a summons to leave from a bailiff. The locks have been changed, the electricity cut off.
Hassad, 27, a computer science student, describes regular “pressure blows” similar to “harassment”:
“I miss classes, tomorrow I have a defense. I’m afraid to leave my room, not to find my things when I come back. I was a mathematics teacher in Morocco, I came to France on purpose for the quality of education. I’ve always paid my rent, I work alongside my studies, I don’t understand. »
Mobilization
Prescriptions in hand, Aurélien explains that he has been on anxiolytics since the beginning of the summer, subject to “panic attacks”:
“The Crous tells me that I no longer meet the social criteria for housing. It’s absurd, my situation has never changed. I made requests to social landlords in particular, but for now, I’m afraid of being on the street. »
The Le Poing Levé collective claims to have contacted a lawyer. It does not exclude legal action. A rally is scheduled for Wednesday, September 15 at 4 p.m., in front of the Crous regional headquarters in Bordeaux. Solicited by Rue89 Bordeaux, its management had not yet responded to our request on Thursday evening.