Sports clubs using the Boulogne-Billancourt ice rink (Hauts-de-Seine) learned bad news this Wednesday. The appeal that their association, Patiner à Boulogne, had filed to stop the procedure for closing the structure was in fact rejected by the courts, reports The Parisian. The emergency situation put forward by the plaintiffs was not recognized by the administrative court of Cergy Pontoise (Val-d’Oise).
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Ice sports practitioners had, among other things, mentioned the case of skaters and hockey players not being able to find other sites to train. Justice recalled that the place had already been closed since last May, that the opening required work that the Boulogne-Billancourt Town Hall was entitled to refuse to finance and that the cost of operating the ice rink weighed heavily on the budget of the municipality.
In a press release published this Thursday, the City also recalled that the closure had been motivated by “technical, economic, legal and ecological reasons”. The Patiner à Boulogne association took note of the court’s decision which obliges it to pay 1,000 euros to the Town Hall and welcomed the fact that its legal action forces the municipality to provide “concealed elements to the association, to municipal councilors and Boulonnais”.
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