By Julien Da Sois
Published
April 16, 2025 at 8:48 a.m.,
updated April 16, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.
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Olivier Andriès keeps through the throat the reaction of the Ecolo elected officials from Rennes to the establishment of an industrial site in the Breton city in February 2024. “Whenever we will have a choice of location, I will ban an offer made by a city held by an ecological majority,” he said.
-The boss of Safran does not hide his anger. Scalded by his establishment in Rennes last year, which led to criticism from elected officials local ecological, Olivier Andriès decided to make a radical decision. “For me, there is no longer any question of investing in France today in a city which is owned by an ecological majority”said the director general of the Tricolore group specializing in aircraft engines, interviewed on Monday by a commission of inquiry of the National Assembly on the brakes at the reindustrialisation of France.
“If it is to be welcomed by tomatoes, it is not worth it, I will not do it. Whenever we have a localization choice, I will ban an offer made by a city held by an ecological majority ”he decided. An allusion to political reactions to the installation of a new foundry of turbine dawns for its aircraft engines in Rennes in February 2024, to create 500 jobs by 2029. “A very strategic activity in the military field but also in the civilian field, because this is one of the most critical parts of an engine”said Olivier Andriès.
“It’s military, it’s not good”
His project respected the zero -artificial law of the soil artificialization (ZAN) by establishing itself on a former site of Stellantis. But the latter, negotiated with the socialist mayor of Rennes Nathalie Appéré, had not been unanimous among municipal elected officials. “When we talk about reindustrialisation I allow myself to say this, we were surprised as soon as it was criticized by the environmentalists in Rennes who questioned the municipal majority in Rennes. […] Ecologists have thrown us tomatoes, on the theme: “It’s scandalous, […] It’s aeronautical, it’s the plane, they will pollute, and then it’s military, it’s not good “”reported the Safran CEO.
An episode that has remained across the throat of Olivier Andriès, who says that his decision to banish the environmental cities “Is not political”. “From the moment we forget the national interest, when we have a selfish attitude, and where we do not understand that creating 500 jobs in a place, it is very important for the territory, the life of people, ie”he concluded. A speaking which the rapporteur of this commission of inquiry, the deputy RN of Moselle Alexandre Loubet, “Punitive ecology prevents reindustrialisation”.
