Of course, there is no question of demolishing these houses immediately. The deadline is far away and until then, Matexi will perhaps make them an advantageous financial proposal. But today, the owners of these houses are very worried. They didn’t know anything until recently. They had never heard of this expropriation project and they were not personally informed that a public inquiry was going to be launched in this regard.
“We were on vacation and it was our neighbor who told us that there was a plan to expropriate our houses, explains Francis, who has lived there for 25 years. But my house, I don’t want to leave it. We have everything nearby, we are good here.”
“My house is my whole life, confides Christiane, who has lived in the house next door for sixty years. I have always lived here, I have my memories. My mom, my aunt and even my grandfather already lived here before. It’s something to know overnight that we’re going to be expropriated.”