Question 22942 — security of property and people

Summary

Mrs Caroline Janvier questions the Minister of the Interior on the measures deployed and deployable in the face of the dangers linked to urban exploration. “Urbex” (from the English urban exploration) is an activity during which people visit alone or in groups abandoned places, inaccessible to the majority of them. A number of disused buildings such as factories, prisons, underground quarries, subways, hospitals, roofs, abandoned railway tracks and even administrative buildings are visited more or less frequently by “urbex” enthusiasts across France. The penal code today punishes trespassing (article 226-4) as well as damage to property belonging to others (article 322-1) but does not mention entry into a place outside the home without criminal acts or vandalism. Beyond the the only criminal issue, the practice of "urbex" poses a real question of physical safety of the people engaging in it since going to an abandoned place often leads to a certain number of risks (collapse of stairs, walls, roofs; presence of dangerous chemical elements; underground flooding; people falling from a roof; injuries linked to sharp objects on the way; etc.). This practice can be all the more dangerous as people practicing "urbex" include more and more teenagers, even children, following the recent media coverage of sensationalist "urbex" videos on the YouTube platform and was also the cause of several deaths in recent years in Lyon and Rosporden. She therefore questions him about the measures already taken and potentially to come on the part of the public authorities in order to limit the number of accidents linked to this urban exploration of disused places, whether through police measures, danger orders, sharing of best municipal practices or even raising awareness on the subject among owners of disused places.

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