Marseille: 3 co -owners sent to prison after the deadly collapse of their building

The Marseille Criminal Court rendered its judgment this Monday, July 7, in the deadline for the deadly collapse of two buildings in 2018. Three co -owners receive prison.

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Three co -owners were sentenced to prison this Monday, July 7, after the trial of the collapse of two buildings, rue d’Aubagne in Marseille, which had caused the death of eight people In November 2018. Owner of an apartment at number 65 on rue d’Aubagne, but also lawyer for the condominium and elected LR at the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur at the time of the facts, Xavier Cachard was sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were made under electronic bracelet.

For the president of the Marseille Criminal Court, Pascal Gand, “The faults committed by Xavier Cachard are the most serious”. Because, both co -owner and lawyer for the trustee, he adopted “A strategy of obstructing the necessary work” in the building, with a “Manifest grip on decisions and votes”. And he showed a “”deplorable indifference»» With regard to the state of the accommodation which he hired.

Co -ownership: “We did 140,000 € of not necessarily useful work, for a catastrophic result”

Discomfort of a co -owner before the verdict

As for Sébastien Ardilly, another co -owner accused with his parents and their SCI (Civil Real Estate Company), the court held that all three were “Personally informed of serious disorders” at number 65 rue d’Aubagne and that they have “Show a total indifference by not carrying out the work “ necessary, assured the president of the court. Works not carried out at the floor and ceiling, apparent electric wires … for Pascal Gand, “These faults caused the death of Ouloume Saïd Hassani indirectly and certainly”a Comorian mother who lived at 65 with her two sons, who survived the collapse of the building.

Even before the Verdict statement, Sébastien Ardilly was unwell and the hearing had to be suspended about forty minutes. Upon resumption, the court announced its conviction to three years in prison, one year firm under electronic bracelet. His father Gilbert received four years in prison, including two closed under electronic bracelet. Her mother, Martine, is sentenced to three years in suspended prison sentence. “The decision rendered by the Marseille Criminal Court has made it possible to account for the responsibility of a majority of defendants”welcomes the foundation for the housing of disadvantaged (ex-Father Pierre-Pierre), among the 102 civil parties constituted within the framework of this trial. Civil parties widely followed by the court. It was indeed they who had directly quoted to appear the co -owners of the 65 rue d’Aubagne, the only building inhabited during the drama, when they had been spared by the instruction.