Dbad weather, news items, good stories. Sudouest.fr has established a ranking of the most read articles in Sud-Gironde and Entre-deux-Mers Médoc in 2024. On the counter: between 20,000 and 230,000 visits per article. Focus on the stories that most impacted readers.
News items in pole position
A microlight crashed in a field in Isle-Saint-Georges on Thursday, July 18. The shock wave of this crash, which left two victims, went beyond the borders of South Gironde due to the personality of the pilot-instructor. Bertrand Amart was very well known in the world of theft and vineyards. The pilot winemaker of Château Vénus, in Illats, had been at the head of a 6.5 hectare wine property in Graves since 2005. He offered first flights and initiations to his clients.
Bertrand Amart, the owner of Château Vénus in Illats, had more than a thousand thefts on his record each year.
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Gunshots in Toulenne on April 25: a man was murdered by a neighbor of his mother. The portrait of the victim, Christophe Roy, was one of the most read articles of the year. The fifty-year-old was a well-known and highly appreciated figure in Toulenne. He was the city’s oldest municipal officer and dressed up as Santa Claus every year for the children at school. The fate of the alleged murderer’s dog also attracted the attention of Internet users.
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Christophe Roy was a passionate Harley Davidson biker.
Other news items, less tragic, have hit the headlines: this is the case of the explosion that occurred in Langoiran on December 5 or the series of suspicious fires in downtown Langon this summer. Who says fire, necessarily says Landiras. When a hectare of forest burns in the middle of the night on August 14 for no apparent reason, a few kilometers from the starting point of the big fires of summer 2022, bad memories come flooding back. And readers are worried.
Saint-Morillon Town Hall
The smoke was still thick on Thursday morning August 15 on the edge of the fire zone in Saint-Morillon.
The agricultural crisis
Wine crisis, farmers’ anger, neighborhood tensions. If several articles on the theme of agriculture have been acclaimed, it is not for positive reasons. The demonstrations organized by farmers in Langon, Landiras and Bazas were particularly followed on sudouest.fr.
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Lesley-Ann and Franck Dansot manage a herd of 260 cattle in Gornac. Despite endless days, the sale of milk no longer covers production costs.
The fate of several women farmers moved readers. This is the case of Pascale Belliard in Targon and Lesley-Ann Dansot in Gornac. The winemaker and the cattle breeder shared their difficulties with sincerity. “I continue out of passion, I love animals. I won’t change careers. But when you lose money every day, it doesn’t make you want to get up in the morning,” the milk producer clenches her fists. A sad reality also for winegrower Amandine Noriega, who had the courage to testify after being hospitalized: “I took out more than a million euros in loans. If I sell, it would not cover my loans and I would lose everything, my land, my house. I fight for my children. »
Adrien Bacon
In Porte-de-Benauge, a village between Cadillac and Sauveterre, the project to raise a hundred pigs in the open air has angered local residents.
“No to pigs!” » Several residents of the commune of Porte-de-Benauge, in Entre-deux-Mers, have set up a collective contesting a project to raise 100 pigs in the open air on four hectares of meadows in place of vineyards. “With the noise, the smells, then the insects, it’s going to be simply unbearable. We will no longer be able to go out into the garden, or sleep with the windows open,” testified a local resident last April. Enough to undermine the morale of the farmer concerned: “We are in an agricultural area. No one from the collective came to talk to me, no one gave me a phone call. »
Nature, heads, tails
How beautiful nature is in South Gironde. The driving forces of the Ciron union are convinced of this. They are campaigning for the creation of a national nature reserve on this river. The number of readers proves that the attachment to this waterway is very strong.
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In the heart of the Ciron beech forest in the gorges which extend over Bernos-Beaulac, Pompejac, Lucmau, Uzeste and Villandraut.
Further downstream, towards Langoiran, several residents of the town center were trapped by the rise of the Garonne. “I parked my Peugeot 307 in front of my house without being suspicious. I was fooled, the water was in my car around 10 p.m.,” Cyril testified on October 21.
Another surprising natural phenomenon: 20 months after the major fires of Landiras and despite exceptional rainfall, the underground combustion of lignite was still active around the Hostens lakes. The article was published on 1is April 2024, some readers thought it was a joke. This was not the case.
Jérôme Jamet
The ground is steaming on the side of the Fosse des Demoiselles in Hostens.
Other information dominates the top of the ranking of the most consulted articles in 2024. In the disorder: the announcement of the arrival of Raphaël Glucksmann at La Réole, the rules of good manners in palombière, the gendarmes who harvest in Sauternes, the anti-LGV demonstration in Lerm-et-Musset and the new life of cyclist-winemaker Thomas Boudat.
