Mr. Pride raised an eyebrow on learning
that Mme. Landlord had reported his act of breach of trust to the Syndic. ‘That old hag is always interfering with my
business and yet the other landlords always follow her for doing the right
things. What do they know, those small
fishes?’ He was the largest shareholders
of the building thus had the power to fire the Syndic. Despite the claim of being the nation of equal
rights, France was severely polarized society, financially. The frequent strike that French workers are renowned
for was more like act of desperation rather than defiance. In the end the money wins out.
As they had expected, the Syndic refrained
from taking any actions against the restaurant.
The blow struck Mme. Landlord hard.
There was no way she could gather consent of the other landlords to hire
a lawyer against Mr. Pride in time.
Three weeks had already passed since the legal permit was granted to the
restaurant. Mme. Empathy was confident
that two months provisional limitation would pass without a hitch. Mr. Pride knew that Mme. Landlord, a retired
lady who had to pay an enormous medical bill for her cancer treatment could not
afford to come after him with a lawyer. I
could foresee the hell that would follow after the expiration date, not that it
was not already hell in my apartment.
The sight of all the deserted rooms above restaurants in Paris crossed
my mind. The victims of the financially polarized
France.
However, I was from Japan, a nation of ‘nearly
all-middle income class.’ I am not a
rich person, but had a saving that I had meant to spend on learning French
culture. I was at the cross road: one
was to keep my saving and leave France; the other was to learn the French
culture in a hard but the most unusual manner.
To gather information I contacted a lawyer and found out there was one
exception to the rules. The person who
has been residing in the place before the problems started can launch an appeal
to the tribunal regardless of his or her legal status. This means, even a tenant like me can try stop
the establishment of the legality of the permit falsely granted to Mme.
Empathy.
To be continued.
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