Two years after the arson attack that killed seven members of one family in Nice's Moulins district, and months after a shooting that claimed two more lives in the same neighbourhood, a local tenants' rights leader has given a mixed assessment of how much has actually changed, according to ICI Azur.
Nourredine Debbari, president of the tenant advocacy groups Nouvelle Méthode Solidaire 06 and Levens Ensemble, said the municipal police post installed at Place des Amaryllis following May's shooting had made a real difference around the neighbourhood's "three towers," long known as a major dealing point. "There's nothing left there now, and residents are happy, it's genuinely calmer," he said. "But the problem has simply moved elsewhere."
Debbari pointed to housing conditions as the district's more persistent failure. "It's the biggest black mark, and it's what residents fear most: some apartments are worse after renovation than they were before," he said.