REPORTAGE – In Lescar, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Valérie Revel (PS) can’t find an insurer to cover her communal buildings. With her back against the wall, the town councillor is denouncing the 5 billion in savings the government is asking local authorities to make as part of the Finance Bill.
Special report from Lescar (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
A phone call is enough to give him the shakes. Especially in the evening, before going to bed. Has a fire broken out at the elementary school? Has a tree fallen on the media library? It’s been almost a year since the town’s 80 or so communal buildings were covered by property damage insurance. “It’s an almost daily worry to wonder if something’s going to happen”.says Valérie Revel, Socialist mayor of Lescar (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). A simple letter from her insurer informed her in the spring of 2023 that her contract would be terminated at the end of the year. No reason given, no way out.
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