THE HISTORIC SQUAT FROM PALETTE DISMENTLED

When the waves of the Arc load the sludge of the winter leaves with them its closest residents. 

The so-called squat of Palette was located just a few steps from the river, below the small neighborhood of le Pont-des-Trois-Sautet. 

As we mentioned in a previous article, the vast land that was once imagined in the supermarket was occupied by a rather young population

of squatters for about ten years.

The oldest were often from squats dismantled during the previous decade as in Infirmary or Route des Alpes (Aix en Provence). 

On this Saturday morning, Red Crest, the historic leader of the Aixois marginals, is KO : his vehicle waiting at the entrance of the squat. 

Notified on Thursday, May 3, the squatters had only one day to evacuate the area. In terms of vehicles and housing, the losses are spread out in the form of large

mounds of caravan remains, trucks collected by municipal excavators. 

Without a hitch, the inhabitants gave up while some Roma were already busy extracting some scraps of metal from the remains of the camp.