The office of the prefecture assured that the blind nonagenarian, to whom the owner claims 9,800 euros in unpaid debts, would not be expelled until suitable rehousing was found.
“There will be no eviction until rehousing is found.“, assured the director of the prefect’s cabinet, Marie-Elise Tilly to France 3, Thursday, July 20. This decision marks a happy ending for Irène, 98, threatened with eviction from the house she has occupied since 1962 in the Pallice district of La Rochelle.
On July 10, the nonagenarian had received a letter telling her that she had to leave her accommodation before August 16 under penalty of eviction with the help of the police. She no longer paid all of her rents for ten years, following an increase. The old lady had signed “without really understanding it“, according to his lawyer Me François Drageon, a capping that would increase his rent from 450 to 900 euros. The owner had therefore taken her to court in 2018 and won her case, a judgment confirmed on appeal in November 2020 by the Poitiers Court of Appeal, which terminated the lease.
In this case, the prefecture has the obligation to find accommodation for this vulnerable person. Done: two accommodations were offered to him. However, Irène refuses them, because the proposals for rehousing are “located 10 km away and upstairs“, specifies his lawyer. However, the old lady is blind and has a phobia of elevators.
After the strong media coverage of his situation by his lawyer, who had called on his colleagues to sign his pleading, the solution seems to have been unblocked. It took the interpellation of the Minister of the Interior by the deputy, Olivier Falorni, for the summons to the police station of the old lady to be canceled urgently. Thursday noon, Irene’s lawyer finally had confirmation that the eviction would not take place until a suitable rehousing solution with which she agrees is found.
If he is still awaiting written confirmation, Me François Drageon believes that he will probably not have to plead on July 27, the date on which a hearing was scheduled to request a stay of expulsion. All that’s left is to wait for the prefecture to offer Irene decent accommodation. “We are very mobilizedassures Marie-Elise Tilly, director of the prefect’s cabinet. We will continue to offer him some, until the right solution is found.“
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