During the municipal council of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), Thursday evening, the new mayor (PCF) of the city had denounced the “rotten” files left by the former UDI majority, announcing the filing of several complaints against three ex-elected. During a press conference this Tuesday morning, Abdel Sadi gave details of these five ongoing procedures, which all target the management of the public housing office (OPH) of the town. An organization at the head of 3,900 social housing units chaired by an elected representative of the majority. In August, municipal councilor Mohamed Aïssani took the lead, succeeding Jonathan Berrebi, whose name is at the heart of the five complaints raised.
“I am not here to settle accounts, but to denounce facts that cannot be ignored,” insisted the city councilor, who has taken a civil action in the proceedings filed on behalf of the OPH. What do these complaints contain? Here are the first elements.
1. “Misappropriation of public property and violation of the Construction Code”. This is the only complaint that targets both Jonathan Berrebi, the former mayor Stéphane de Paoli and the former first deputy Christian Bartholmé. Before the second round of municipal elections, the OPH sold an 11-unit building located on rue Gaston-Crépin to a real estate company. “They wanted to move these homes into the private stock while the law obliges social landlords to sell their property to other landlords,” regrets Mohamed Aïssani.
The building was sold at 415,000 euros, below the estimate of the State Property Department (DIE). “It was not even a profitable operation for the OPH, criticizes the new president. This sale was made directly by Jonathan Berrebi, although he was not allowed to do so. And this with the support of the mayor and the office of the OPH on which Christian Bartholmé sat. However, no one is supposed to ignore the law when elected! ”According to the OPH, the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis – who did not respond to our requests – would have filed an interim order with the administrative court of Montreuil to contest this real estate transaction.
“We had been talking about selling this building in very poor condition for three years,” explains Jonathan Berrebi, who denounces a “political cabal”. “Do you really think that two notaries would have validated the sale if it was not possible?” When contacted, Stéphane de Paoli did not respond to our requests. For his part, Christian Bartholmé assures that he was not aware of the opposition of the prefecture and recalls that he had no decision-making power in his name within the OPH. “When you are elected and sit in this type of body, you do not go through the entire Construction Code with each decision! He breathes.
2. “Forgery, use of forgery and fraud”. This complaint targets Jonathan Berrebi, former employees of the OPH and several companies that the Office suspects of having rigged their prices concerning a paint market for the stairwells of the landlord’s buildings. “In 2019, the OPH decided to repaint 43 stairwells. What was far from being the priority, believes Mohamed Aïssani. When we arrived at the head of the Office, we discovered that we had been invoiced for these sites of scaffolding that we had never seen anywhere. We paid for toilets and a construction refectory for each hall of a repainted building. In one residence, we had nine toilets and nine dining rooms for only two workers! “
