Former president of Marseille Habitat public housing rental company Christian Gil leaves the courthouse after hearing the prosecution's closing speech during his trial, along with 15 others accused, in the case of the 2018 fatal collapse of two residential buildings Marseille's Aubagne street, on December 12, 2024. Six years after eight people died in the collapse of two buildings near Marseille's Old Port, the trial of sixteen people, including a former deputy mayor, began on November 7, 2024. They were all implicated in the sum total of negligence and financial calculations that led to the disaster. (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP) (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images)