“They dragged us as a result of the mud when we had been the first to enable them.” For Katy Bontinck, to start with deputy mayor (PS) of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), the “media campaign” launched by the MaMaMa association does not move.
On July 19, the facility that distributes food items packages and basic requirements to infants and ladies in difficulty, revealed a movie on social networks. She points out that she is threatened with eviction, within just seven times, from the premises she has occupied for two several years no cost of demand. Purpose for this evaluate: its lack of ability to spend the 18,000 euros of yearly lease claimed by the SEM Plaine Commune Développement and the metropolis of Saint-Denis. “It is distinct that we are no extended desired”, an personnel of the association is indignant in the online video.
A “logistic bridgehead” for associations
To comprehend the conflict concerning the affiliation and regional authorities, we need to go again to April 2020. At the commencing of the to start with confinement, the then mayor of Saint-Denis, Laurent Russier, available MaMaMa a absolutely free work agreement in the previous premises of AB Manufacturing, on the ZAC Nozal Front Populaire. Unemployed, the 1,200-sq.-meter website is destined for destruction by 2024. For approximately two decades, the momentary agreements are renewed by the new municipality and the affiliation grows.
“We are now existing in nine departments. We work with 150 health and fitness centers, 110 associations and of class personal beneficiaries. In overall, more than four million euros of simple requirements have been distributed in two years ”, observes Magali Bragard, co-founder of the association. “We have been even explained as a local NGO by Mathieu Hanotin (the new mayor, ed) who, at the time, described to us that it would be indecent to demand us the rent,” she adds, supporting online video.
For his assistant, Katy Bontinck, this online video was slice. The mayor would have added “the time when you discover a new place”. In fact, the first assistant assures that it has constantly been crystal clear that this profession would not continue after imprisonment. “In complete, with two yrs of totally free employment and some subsidies, the town has made available the association € 500,000, an tremendous sum. Right now it has lots of partners and scholarships. The ZAC has an financial product to preserve. In particular given that other SSS actors would be prepared to rent this place, “she thinks.
The municipality would also have warned the MaMaMa that keeping on website would be unsustainable, even with the “minimum” lease proposed by SEM, ie 120 euros for each square meter (which includes 50 euros of expenses) per yr. “MaMaMa absolutely would like 1,200 square meters, to be close to a coach station, etc. Naturally, this will come at a cost… ”observes Katy Bontinck.
Unsustainable hire
“Although we have received many subsidies in two several years, like 240,000 euros from the recovery strategy, all have been allocated. So we are unable to spend the lease with it. But we will need a great deal of place to get big deliveries, ”explains Magali Bragard.
Nowadays the dialogue is damaged concerning the two sides. “We will not give in to this form of blackmail, we presume that an economic design is very important for the ZAC and that we have already helped this affiliation, which does not work only in our section. If he does not leave the premises quickly, we will attractiveness to a decide, ”warns Katy Bontinck.
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