The “Grumpy Smurfs” of 42 bis Rue Trachel are definitely out of trouble. The Local Engagement Committee, indeed, validated the new project of the National Renovation Plan for Degraded Old Districts (PNQRAD) concerning their neighborhood on June 19, 2013. In short, the initial project, with its dubious goals, is definitely buried!
The penal aspect of this case, on the other hand, is not yet over…
On March 7, Jean-Christophe Picard, head of Anticor 06, filed a complaint for illegal taking of interest against Daniel Benchimol.
Despite the threat of a complaint for malicious denunciation and the accusation of making “inappropriate comments,” coming respectively from Daniel Benchimol as well as Christian Estrosi, the head of Anticor 06 recently filed a new complaint, against an unknown person, for forgery and use of forgery.
Explanations…
By deliberation dated September 21, 2012, the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis approved the convention for the Programmed Operation for the Improvement of Housing and Urban Renewal for the Notre-Dame/Vernier/Thiers neighborhood. However, in the attached convention, it reads:
“On these buildings qualified as degraded, and very degraded, a socio-economic survey was conducted at the occupants’ homes, this allowing not only to inform about the conditions of occupancy of this degraded park but also about the interior state of the housing. […] It emerged that more than half of the surveyed housing (55%) could be qualified as poor, accumulating more than three defective areas, 12% of them being even very poor (accumulating more than five defective areas). Therefore, nearly 110 homes can be qualified as unworthy or very degraded, calling for extensive work, these properties being mainly represented in the rental park. Although some unworthy housing situations have been identified, the majority of the observed situations still pertain to indecency or obsolescence.”
Unquestionably, this “socio-economic survey at residents’ homes” is one of the elements that justified the Programmed Operation for the Improvement of Housing and Urban Renewal in its first version…
Problem: “this survey never took place”! It was the residents’ lawyer who unveiled the truth during a press conference on March 14, 2013.
Yet, “any fraudulent alteration of the truth, likely to cause harm and accomplished by any means whatsoever, in a written document […] intended to establish the proof of a right or a fact having legal consequences” constitutes forgery (Article 441-1 of the Penal Code).
“But who is the ‘Forgery Smurf’?” questions Jean-Christophe Picard, who hopes an investigation will unveil the many obscurities that persist in this case.
