As 2024 comes to an end, it's time to look back at what made the news on Objectif Gard this year. In October, bad weather hit the Gard again, a tennis tournament was announced in the arenas, our deputies were talked about and a motorist was caught at 230 km/h at the wheel of his Ferrari. Fasten your seat belts, let's go for the penultimate retro of the year.
In mid-October, torrential rains hit the Cévennes and the Ardèche, resulting in a rise in the level of the Cèze and the Gardons, but also and above all a significant flood of the Rhône at Pont-Saint-Esprit. The river, swollen by its tributary the Ardèche whose confluence is at Pont, rises dangerously, to the point that mayor Valère Segal must resolve to evacuate several neighborhoods. Low points of the city are flooded, but fortunately, the river will not pass the dike which, despite some signs of weakness, held. On the other hand, the Critérium des Cévennes will be canceledthe prefectures of Gard and Hérault, affected by the car rally, fearing for the 200 runners and the thousand spectators expected.
There will undoubtedly be many more spectators at the major tennis tournament announced at the beginning of October by the City of Nîmes and Bastide Médical : the UTS Tour, founded by tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou, will be held on April 4 and 5 in the arenas. A special tournament, whose matches will not exceed 45 minutes, which will see big names compete, such as the Norwegian Casper Ruud, the Russian Andrey Rublev and the French Ugo Humbert and Gaël Monfils. We really want to see that.
Did we want to hear that? On October 2, the RN deputy for the 16th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône, Emmanuel Taché de la Pagerie, left the National Assembly by launching a sound “Good orgy!” »after narrowly missing a position as vice-president of the national delegation for women's rights of the Assembly, despite the support given by the RN to the candidate Renaissance who obtained the presidency. A controversy will follow, obviously.
A few days later, the RN-Ciotti deputy for the 5th constituency of Gard Alexandre Allegret-Pilot was floured during his visit to the Vigan apple and sweet onion fair. The deputy had already been greeted by a chorus of pangs from opponents of the far-right. The alleged perpetrator of the flour throwing will be arrested on site and will appear on February 5 before the criminal court. Still on this weekend of the apple and sweet onion fair, we learned the death of the mayor of Molières-Cavaillac and president of the Joint Electrification Union of Gard Territoires d’energie, Roland Canayerat 74 years old following a long illness. A popular elected official, whose disappearance will provoke many saddened reactions.
Always in October, a driver like our department unfortunately has too many was tied up by the gendarmes at 230 km/h while driving his Ferrari on the RN106 near Vézénobres. A very small speeding violation of 120 km/h, the speed on the 2×2 lane being limited to 110. The beautiful Italian left for the pound, and the driver, without his license, walked away. We cannot strongly advise him to buy a scooter, a good bike or a bus card, since it could last.
