This is a decision that causes the anger of Marine Tondelier, general secretary of Environmental. The Toulouse Administrative Court authorized on Wednesday, May 28, the resumption of the site around A69 on Wednesday, May 28, between Toulouse and Castres.
Justice was pronounced in an emergency appeal presented by the State, aimed at restarting this 53 -kilometer project. She still has to decide on the bottom of this file in several months, which makes Marine Tondelier react in BFMTV.
“I am throughout the life and future of our children”
“I have problems with the way laws are written in this country. They allow the resumption of work in projects that we still do not know if they are legal,” according to the head of environmentalists.
“I saw some policies, during the suspension of work, let’s say ‘you should not suspend, we must go to the end because now we have done half of the work'”, deplora. According to Marine Tondelier, “they rushed” to work and then say “now that they have begun, you have to finish them.”
“We, from the beginning, say ‘we must ensure the legality of the project (…) to begin work”, defends itself in our antenna, pointing out of “bad faith” and “political dishonesty in this project.”
“I am not against the A69, I am throughout the life and future of our children,” says Marine Tondelier, aiming a project “that will take 360 hectares of agricultural land and that will cause the destruction of 116 protected species.”
On February 27, the Toulouse court suspended the road project, which began in 2023, evoking an “imperative reason for the great public interest (RIPM).” But, on May 21, the public translation said it was favorable to the resumption of the site, believing that the cities of Castres, Mazamet and Toulouse had “by nature they were connected by rapid road infrastructure.”
A decision that made six days after the adoption in the Senate of a text to try to obtain the resumption of the site. The National Assembly will take charge on June 2 for the initiative of the deputies of Tarn Marie-Lise Housseau and Philippe Folliot.
The objective of their approach: allow parliamentarians to “recover control” and have “validated” by law by two orders related to the environmental authorization of the project.
Since the beginning of work, environmental activists have occupied trees and have tried to install Zad (“areas to be defended”) in the road design. These activists requested a new mobilization on July 4, 5 and 6. They believe that the area has no coastline and that, if this were the case, a road is not a guarantee of opening the region. The A69 supporters have also organized demonstrations in recent months, with the slogan “A69, we end!”
Source: BFM TV
