This Monday, November 25, the administrative court examines the appeal for annulment of the environmental authorization which permitted the construction of the A69. Between 100 and 200 opponents gathered this morning before the hearing. Opponents who hope that justice will stop the construction site.
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On the square in front of Matabiau station in Toulouse, it is hope that animates the 100 to 200 opponents of the A 69 motorway. The hope of seeing the construction of the motorway between Castres and Toulouse stopped by the courts.
To read: A69 motorway: everything you need to know about the hearing at the administrative court, after the request for cancellation of the construction site by the Public Rapporteur
This Monday, November 25, the administrative court examines the appeal for annulment of the environmental authorizations which allowed the construction of the A69.
An examination which takes place just a few days after the opinion of the public rapporteur. He believes that there is no “compulsory reason of major interest justifying the exemption for protected species.”
“Today is quite a historic day for us. Following what the public rapporteur said, it is the first time that we have been told that we are right. We know that we have right, but it was officially said that we know that this highway should not be built, having seen the damage it was very hard, we hope that justice will be able to recognize that we are right and that we must stop.explains Peter Quince, from the Lauragais sans bitume collective, this activist at the microphone of the France 3 Occitanie team on site.
Beyond the opinion of the public rapporteur, these opponents recall the absurdity of the project according to them. “A motorway is profitable from 22,000 vehicles per day. Today, what are there? 5,000, 6,000 max in this area. There will be six lanes of traffic for the Tarn, it’s ridiculous!”Peter Quince.
A conviction shared by LFI MP Anne Stambach-Terrenoir. “There are hundreds of hectares of agricultural land, wetlands, wooded areas, natural areas, all along a national road that already exists and that could have been developed”she declares. She who will be rapporteur on Thursday, November 28, of a bill on a moratorium on highway projects. “We do not know how to estimate the cost of destroying an ecosystem. There is an urgent need to stop this project and give nature a chance again”specifies the LFI MP.
For his part, Olivier Fabre, DVD mayor of Mazamet and in favor of the motorway project, expressed his concern to AFP. Favorable to the highway project. “The possible shutdown of the construction site would be catastrophic” et “could delay the much-awaited road opening up of the south of Tarn”. An argument shared by Christophe Ramon, the PS president of the Tarn Departmental Council, the Macronist deputy Jean Terlier and the PS president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga.
The opponents then left the station square to go to the administrative court hearing at 9 a.m. The decision is expected within a fortnight. There is no guarantee that the opinion of the public rapporteur will be followed. Opponents are already announcing that if justice does not prove them right, they will continue their fight.
