It was the last link capable of stopping the cycle of errors and mistakes that inevitably led to the collapse of two buildings on rue d’Aubagne on November 5, 2018, burying eight Marseille residents. This last safeguard, Richard Carta, 66 years old, renowned architect and jurist praised by the magistrates, was urgently appointed, on October 18, 2018, by the administrative court for a procedure of serious and imminent danger in 65 of the rue d’Aubagne.
At the end of an hour-long visit, Richard Carta concluded that the building’s occupants had been reinstated, except for 1Ahem Side floor to the patio. The general evacuation order would have saved eight lives. A day of interrogation, on Monday, December 2, before the Marseille criminal court, showed that Richard Carta, that day, rushed to work. Imperfect diagnoses, ambiguous wording of the report and lack of curiosity are attributed to him in relation to eight involuntary homicides. “If you don’t look, you won’t find.”The president of the court, Pascal Gand, raises it twice.
On October 19, 2018, at 6 a.m., twelve hours before the building code’s twenty-four-hour period to write an observation and make recommendations expired, he boarded a plane for three weeks of vacation in Denmark. When he returned on November 8, not all the bodies had been removed from the rubble of the rue d’Aubagne. By going on vacation, Richard Carta deprived himself of information that would have radically changed his analysis.
This October 19 – your report will be presented by an associate at 3 p.m. – you are already in Copenhagen when, at 10 a.m. 43 p.m., an email from an executive of Marseille Habitat, co-owner of the municipal economy. from the adjacent building, 63 rue d’Aubagne. “For all intents and purposes, she writes, A first assessment was requested by the owner of 67, an assessment that concluded that number 65 had collapsed, which was demolishing the two adjacent buildings (67 and 63). »
“I didn’t open my mailbox”
The legal expert reports are attached. “I haven’t opened my mailbox” responds to the court that asks if “This most problematic context [lui] Don’t check your copy.”. A few hours earlier, questioned by Céline Lendo, a lawyer for the Italian parents of one of the eight victims, about his lack of curiosity, Richard Carta had spilled phlegm: “If I had known, if I had known…”
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