third of the Racine Street building fell. It is the evening of October 25 were launched in the demolition with the expected late arrival and a shovel company Xardel and a 20 ton carrying his special equipment.
The excavator stops between the three and a Racine Street, "as if by chance it begins with us" said a young girl among the people crowded behind security gates. The shovel ready site by spreading on the lawn at the foot of the building a layer of grime on a film geotextile to protect the existing lawn. And it is in the twilight are emerging that brought the first shots in front of all its empty windows.
Residents and curious, kept away on the lawns of the square, measure the rapid growth of the hole dug glare of headlights with a shovel.
Young congregate along the railings, but wary attracted by the cameras filming the event. The elders talk about the weather and the fields surrounding buildings, passers-by who are not district remain fascinated children huddle around their mother. The phones transformed into cameras.
Night falls, the symbolic operation ends and the crowd disperses. Before leaving, the workers greet the guard who will watch over the site until tomorrow.
The operation was postponed for nearly two years now. And not all residents had in mind the impending demolition of half of the building. Some were sometimes surprised by the intensity of vibration and noise of the shovel tearing the walls. The entire history of people who lived there going on in memories.
Families girlfriends are a little distant because even if it was done in the area, relocation to loosening the ties that bound them. The rites and informal proofs of friendship could exist from one level to another can not long resist the spread of one or several streets between old neighbors.
Adolescents who have grown up there, watch the years disappear abetting child and the feeling of belonging to a large family.
The shovel piled floors and walls fall like a house of cards, leaving the familiar tapestries in the open. For some, living here was to forget the discomfort and length of the apartments.
What they have lived there, solidarity and pleasure of living together, is theirs forever and is a solid background to move into adulthood and the model of a life renewed .
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