PUTEAUX COURT ---- Adoma illegally expels a refugee and asks residents
to produce dubious testimonies to justify itself ---- Adoma illegallyexpels a refugee and asks residents to produce dubious testimonies to
justify itself ---- Everyone at trial, Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at
9:30 a.m. at the PUTEAUX COURT, 131 rue de la République, 92800 Puteaux
"Mairie de Puteaux" stop (bus 141,144, 158) Lines L and U, "Puteaux"
stop 11/22/2024
April 30, 2024 Adoma expels Mohamed Hamid Arabi, refugee, without being
burdened by a court decision Sudanese resident. Mohamed has been living
since 2018 in the shelter at 4 rue Sorbiers, the largest shelter in the
Ile-de-France region, two towers, 520 housing units, scheduled for a
demolition and reconstruction operation in the next two years. With the
support of Copaf, Mohamed has decided to sue Adoma, a subsidiary of CDC
HABITAT, for wrongful eviction. Adoma is trying to defend itself by
selling another story to the judges, with strange testimonies from
residents to support it... This manager of shelters and other social
residences has left behind his first name, Sonacotra, but not his good
old practices tinged with colonial authoritarianism.
In mid-May 2024, a young Sudanese man arrives at our office looking lost
and disillusioned, a crumpled piece of paper in his hand. He had found a
leaflet for the Copaf office in his mailbox. Mohamed then tells us about
his eviction.
When he returned from an appointment with a social worker, Mohamed found
the door to his room had been replaced by an armoured Sitex "anti-squat"
door; his key no longer allowed him to enter his room. His belongings -
papers, clothes, small equipment - were locked inside. We asked him if
he had been summoned to court, if bailiffs had been in his room. He told
us no. Adoma had evicted him without going to court. Mohamed had rent
arrears, but even if these had amounted to more than EUR53,000*, which
is what a territorial director at Adoma earns, a court decision would
have been required before obtaining the assistance of the police to be
able to evict him. The eviction is therefore illegal.
To defend himself, Adoma tries to sell another story to the judges, that
of someone who left of his own accord, more than a year ago and left his
room empty, making the neighborhood's evil squatters happy, who sell
cigarettes and make noise all the time. Adoma supports his story with
three testimonies from other residents, also living in the home but
unknown to Mohamed and who do not specify the floor where they live. One
of them lives on the 10th floor, 5 floors above Mohamed's room. He
claims not to have seen Mohamed for more than a year and to be disturbed
by the noise made by the squatters, 5 floors below his. We wonder what
could have motivated these residents to produce such absurd testimonies.
There is no doubt that Adoma must have used very good arguments.
Mohamed was sleeping in his room the day before they changed his door.
He tells us that he has never left the region since his arrival in
France. Following his eviction, he slept at the entrance to a public
garden a stone's throw from the home. We had the opportunity to go and
talk with his neighbours on the landing who, after warmly greeting their
neighbour Mohamed, immediately volunteered to testify on his behalf. It
seems that the nuisances that managed to make their way to the 10th
floor did not find their way to the next door.
Mohamed is a refugee. He does not speak French, only Arabic and a few
words of English. He is reserved. The day we went to the Nanterre police
station to file a complaint that the police officer refused to take (a
fairly widespread practice in our very democratic police stations in the
Republic), we went to a café. He explained his story. In France, the
language barrier is difficult to overcome, he cannot find work and is
completely lost when faced with the administrative procedures and
letters written in French that he receives. At the RSA, he thought that
the APL covered all of his contribution, he let a payment delay
accumulate. His APL was suspended and the delay worsened. This situation
could have been easily avoided if the hundreds of thousands of euros of
public subsidies that Adoma receives each year for "social support" were
used for something other than paying the bailiffs and lawyers who work
hard to evict dozens of people each week. Adoma thought he could
peacefully abuse a vulnerable young refugee who does not know his rights.
The foyer rue des Sorbiers in Nanterre is a very old, very damaged foyer
that still houses nearly 400 people in 13 square meter rooms that Adoma
charges EUR520 per month, EUR50 more than in the brand new 18 square
meter studios in social housing in the heart of Paris. In building A,
there are 15 floors, two elevators that have not worked for more than
two weeks, leaving retired immigrant workers stuck on the highest floors
who do not have the strength to climb all these stairs. There is no
residents' committee, although this is required by law in any
residential home housing more than 30 residents and whose elections must
be organized by the manager. The residents of this establishment live in
unacceptable conditions. They are isolated and abandoned by the public
authorities, left at the mercy of the abuses of an unscrupulous manager.
Adoma has predatory practices that crush the most vulnerable. Adoma is
assumed to have seized an opportunity to push out a resident who would
otherwise have been required to be relocated in the planned demolition
operation. It is a disgrace for the Nanterre city hall and the
Hauts-de-Seine department to allow such abuses to take place on their
territory.
We must REFUSE ANY ILLEGAL EVICTIONS,
FIGHT FOR DECENT HOUSING FOR ALL THE COUNTRY'S INHABITANTS,
REFUSE THE RACISM AND CONTEMPT THAT CAUSES SUCH ACTS
P.S.
http://www.copaf.ouvaton.org/
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4299
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