After losing her apartment in the collapses of the rue d’Aubagne, Gabrielle acquired a commercial space that the occupant refuses to leave. The apartment she owns at Belle-de-Mai is also squatted.

“I am a homeless owner”. Gabrielle, business manager, acquires commercial space in rue d’Aubagne in 2020, already occupied. She herself lost her home during the collapses on this same street in November 2018.

But, for two years, the tenant of his new property has refused to pay more than 400 euros per month for rent. She also does not want to pay the charges, which amount to 600 euros, according to the owner.

Gabrielle then files a complaint to break the lease that binds her to the tenant, and the court rules in her favor. Her eviction was ordered last July but, to date, the current occupant has still not left the premises.

“The problem in all of this is that I am responsible for what happens in there,” laments Gabrielle. The owner also mentions problems with the tenant and the family of the latter, which impact his health:

“Their aggressiveness means that today I no longer live. She sends me her children, her nephews. They broke the building’s surveillance cameras, the company’s intercoms. In total , all these stories cost me close to 30,000 euros”.

“I’ve been here for 20 years, I won’t leave like that”

Today, she has no choice but to wait for the intervention of the police to execute the eviction of the tenant.

The tenant believes that she is within her rights and has decided to appeal the court decision. “Before leaving, I have to sell my business, I have to be reimbursed for the money I invested. Here, it was a mess; it’s thanks to me that the local is as it is today. I’ve been here for 20 years, I won’t leave like that, “she reacted to the microphone of BFM Marseille.

To date, the situation is deadlocked. It is added for Gabrielle to another similar problem. She owns an apartment located at Belle de Mai, in the Le Gyptis residence, which has also been squatted for three years.

She is forced to live in the premises where she has set up her business. “This is where I work, this is my dining room, this is my bedroom,” she laments.