My Never-Ending Apartment Story Part 4
February 22nd, 2023 / µ
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A Strange Kind of Justice
What is a court ruling worth in France? Nothing, it seems.
In France, a court can order you to pay a fine, but nothing happens if you don’t pay. At least, that’s the reality of the French legal system as I have come to know it.
In 2022 my former landlord in Paris was fined by a French court to pay me back my deposit plus a fine. But that did not mean he paid up, and once ruled, it was no longer the justice system’s problem.
So I got a huissier de justice to get me the money, as I was told to do. I paid the company, and they got me back a portion of what was owed, my deposit. But the fine has not been paid yet.
Now 1 year after the court ruled and more than 3 years after I left the apartment in the 5th arrondissement in Paris, the huissier de justice does not answer my inquiries, and nobody seems to think it is unreasonable someone still owes me more than 4000 €.
That’s a strange kind of justice, leaving me a bit Gellhorn-ish:
“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
Thanks for reading! I hope you found it valuable and worth your time! Until next time, remember to get your facts straight and that whatever good times you have will never come back as bad times,
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