The Minister of the Interior declared this Tuesday, November 12, that the State was studying the possibility of buying the Chammet site, in Faux-la-Montagne, in Creuse, to “protect and renature it”. Questioned in the National Assembly by UDR deputy Bartolomé Lenoir, who says he fears the installation of “a new ZAD” on this former holiday center, Bruno Retailleau notably asked the prefecture “to monitor this place very closely” .
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Bartolomé Lenoir seems to have made the Chammet site his main hobby horse. This Tuesday, November 12, at the National Assembly, the UDR deputy for Creuse questioned the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau about this former vacation center, located in Faux-la-Montagne. “Creuse could become a new ZAD“, he was alarmed once again, demanding a reaction from the government. In response, the minister detailed “three lines of work” for the future, including a possible purchase of the place.
Abandoned in 2004, the site, owned by the Enedis works council, was the scene of numerous rave parties until 2018. It is currently rented free of charge by an association, the Forest Research and Study Center (CREF). It is the presence of this organization that Bartolomé Lenoir lamented this Tuesday at the Palais Bourbon: “This holiday center was made available to an activist association which advocates a postapocalyptic society, a place of desertions where you can destroy and transplant whatever you want. (…) Worse still, this area would constitute a fallback zone during violent demonstrations, as in Sainte-Soline.”
The parliamentarian then directly challenged Bruno Retailleau: “Mr. Minister of the Interior, will you dare to prevent the establishment of a ZAD in the Creuse and put an end to this duo, composed of an extreme left association and an extreme left party, which threatens my department and our campaigns?“
Already aware, in all likelihood, of this Creuse quarrel, the Minister of the Interior assured that he was “particularly vigilant“, arguing that they noted that the old holiday village welcomed “very regularly activists from the most radical environmental causes“The government is therefore considering three solutions.”which are not alternative, but cumulative“.
Firstly, Bruno Retailleau would have “asked the prefect of Creuse to monitor this place very closely, so that no disturbance of public order is left unanswered“. Interviewed by telephone, Anne Frakoviak-Jacobs did not wish to expand on the subject. Secondly, he promised that he would contact “Enedis and its works council to verify whether the corporate purpose of the CCAS is compatible with the rental of a site to this association“. Finally, he supported “the possibility of the State purchasing the site to protect and renature it“.
Contacted, the municipality does not wish, for the moment, to give further attention to this controversy. An assistant nevertheless told us that if the works council decided to sell the site to the State, the town hall would not have “nothing to say about it“. “There is no reason for us to intervene to oppose it“, he declared, while denouncing “the desire of Bartolomé Lenoir to use the Creuse for his personal ambitions“.
Last October, Catherine Moulin, mayor of the town, filed a complaint against the parliamentarian for false comments. While the latter had already expressed fears about “the installation of what we could call a ZAD“, the city councilor had firmly protested: “I blame him for making people believe that there is a den of ultra-leftists in our town.. IHe was born in Angers, he studied elsewhere, he arrived here, and I find it a strange first introduction to the territory. It's quite violent. This makes me angry, really.“
Launched less than a month ago by Bartolomé Lenoir, an online petition aimed at evicting the occupants of the former holiday center has more than a thousand signatures.
