(en) France, Coordination Groups Anarchistes CGA IAL #93 Fire crisis: A st Denis season evictions and class war knows no truce (fr)

Housing CGA ---- The financial crisis and the debt crisis reinforce deep and lasting 
crisis: the housing crisis. Fabricated by the owners, the state and municipalities, the 
traditional lever of capitalism to maintain operations, it should be noted that it has 
increased in the wake of attacks related to these crises. If popular cities are affected 
first, multiplying evictions of tenants, squatter-Artists may well become a reality for 
all. This is what happens in other neighboring countries where the attacks are linked to 
the crisis stronger: Spain, Greece, United States. ---- ST Denis renovation rhymes with 
expulsion ---- A Saint Denis, a town awash in work: target of urban renewal, the city 
signed in 2010 PNRQAD (National Plan for Redevelopment Districts Veterans Gradients).

Combining state, municipalities, developers and it is a boon for hunting conducted in poor 
neighborhoods. Indeed, under the pretext of renovating houses and fight against health 
hazards, they displace, expel, expropriate and makes it impossible for former es-es capita 
access to new housing (too expensive, higher ceilings for social leases ). A St Denis 
where 34% of dwellings are unsafe in the center, the plan 150 1,200 demolitions and 
housing rehabilitation. Season expulsions knows no truce.

A Saint Denis, prefecture and municipality continue to increase deportations of buildings. 
This was in an area near the station Charles Michel, buildings were expelled after the 
fire, another building in the neighborhood station is expelled. And when fire destroyed a 
building unsafe as wildfire, mayor and state in the blood mark their contempt for these 
tenants: no relocation, two nights after the torn social threat of occupation of the labor 
exchange . A fable racist against other examples of this type of drama. Indeed, a large 
part of the inhabitants-es were undocumented, and you always racialized-s (suffering 
racism). It will require the mobilization of stricken es themselves, still in shock that 
the mayor and the state are driven to find solutions.

Fire: the tree that hides the forest

What happened in St Denis at the time of fire, it is the tree that hides the forest, the 
epitome of this class war led to the poor. On the night of Saturday 8 to Sunday, September 
9, a fire broke out at 39, rue Gabriel Peri, Saint-Denis, killing two people and leaving 
forty homeless people. Despite the announcement of the Minister C. Duflot immediate 
relocation of damaged-es, es some of capita-es of 39 do not even have emergency 
accommodation solution in the evening of 9 September (es some of them and of them were 
denied access to health care in hospitals, and without official paper of the municipality 
of Saint-Denis, to the social check-in Noisy-le-Sec-es have been forced to sleep outside 
). The next night, emergency solutions are known, are for everyone until very late in the 
evening. A rally was held Tuesday, September 11 in front of the fire building, where 
capita-es and activists come together and decide to invest room the Labour Exchange to 
meet and consider the follow-up to the fight for relocation of capita-es. Therefore, 
activists, permanent es associations (DAL ...), sometimes close to the mayor in place, 
pose a strongly hierarchical control framework (tinged with paternalism latent) d?douanant 
mayor of responsibility and directing capita-es to bring their claims to the Department, 
when we know that the council has the ability to commandeer unoccupied. A demonstration is 
scheduled for tomorrow, news are written to organize the struggle and the balance of power 
in front of the town hall. Before the event, and in a context even harder, since a new 
person has succumbed to his injuries, capita-es decided to occupy the Basilica of 
Saint-Denis to put pressure on the mayor and the prefecture in order to their right to 
immediate and permanent relocation, Saint-Denis. After a night of occupation and 
negotiations with the prefect, the damaged-es are offered a solution that is not 
satisfactory: they will be hosted es, until 1 st October in a social hotel in Saint-Denis 
. The accommodations were extended but the struggle remains to be done!

But what is unsafe? This is the slumlords who have full place in the city, it is the right 
of ownership and the laws that mark their unconditional support to the owners, it is the 
mayor who hardens the conditions for recognition of unsafe and leaves do slumlords. In the 
center, many slumlords are day and night for many tenants and sub-tenants. They leave 
rotting homes and extort every month tenants rents skyrocketing. Made from scratch, 
unhealthy is nothing inevitable.

And the mayor will stop at nothing to save face! A mail delivered the day after the 
occupation of the Basilica of St Denis in all boxes of the city reported, "After the fire 
on the night of 8 to 9 September, which caused the death of two people, the entire 
municipality has mobilized alongside the victims and their families "(e" Absorb the slums 
private emergency "). "Mobilized"? Torn at first by mobilizing disaster: two nights 
office, a fee of 8 euros per day for four days proposed to es-stricken who had lost all 
their papers, and had no roof over their heads the aftermath of the tragedy.

What lessons can we learn from this fight and what are the prospects for intervention are 
considered to be active, as anarchists in the struggle housing?

-Exit the emergency is not involved in charity as support to damaged or es-es expelled, 
but as people are concerned, the problems of poor housing and / or deported. We are all 
concerned and all-es by housing policies that aim to make war on the poor pretext of 
fighting against unhealthy: they pay rent ruining, which is ill-housed-es, that we know 
the unhealthy

-Exit the emergency is to act upstream of evictions to create class solidarities that are 
based on the interests of each person to organize his neighbor-e.

-Exit the emergency is locate in a neighborhood, act locally through leaflets broadcasts 
through collages to make visible the presence of militants, to educate capita-es to 
subject, to create horizontal solidarities between the main and main-'re concerned.

Group in the Paris region.