Collateral victim of a conflict between their owner and a neighbor, a family with two children finds themselves trapped. The couple struggles every day to access their house, which they rent.
Neighborhood conflicts are not new. Although there are no precise statistics on this social phenomenon in France, it is nevertheless common to see in the media, or to hear through acquaintances, stories between neighbors which have led to legal action, sometimes even to dramas. On a daily basis, quarrels between neighbors can become a real ordeal for the people in the middle. This is the case of a family living in a small village in the Ardennes, and whose France 3 Grand Est was echoed. A couple and their two children find themselves the collateral victims of a conflict that has lasted for several years between their landlord, from whom the family rents an old farm, and a farmer. Tensions are so high that the two neighbors are on trial. The main cause of the problem is not known by tenants, and yet it is they who pay the consequences every day.
According to France 3, since December 23, it seems that the farmer, to provoke the owner of the house, is blocking the one and only motorable road which allows the family to come and go to their home. They do have another path that they can take, but it is covered with earth and is not passable in everyday life, especially with children. For example, the couple’s city car does not pass when the road is muddy. Their solution: park at the very beginning of the path and do the rest on foot. “It is often pitch black. With children and shopping, it’s an ordeal, we don’t have time to waste on this kind of thing.” entrusted Laura Josseaux at the head of the tribe to France 3 Regions. Ultimately, their entire daily life is impacted: access for any delivery people or the postman, trash collection, visits from relatives or friends, etc.
Over the months, the tension became so great that the tribe isolated itself against its will. “I go out less, we receive fewer people and we no longer invite the children’s friends because they are ashamed. said the mother before adding: “We don’t want to take anyone’s side, it’s their business. But as a tenant, you don’t know what to do. (…) We just want to go home normally and be peaceful without stress.” The couple tries to find solutions, without going through the courts, in vain. It remains to be seen how much longer this dispute between the farmer and the owner of their house will last.