The LGV case in the Basque Country has again contested, this time in the street, this Saturday morning in Bayonne. Between 150 and 200 opponents gathered in front of the entrance to the Cité des arts to contest the project for a high-speed line, passing through Bordeaux to Dax, and which could reach Hendaye, while the president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region Alain Rousset met with the mayors of the Basque Country agglomeration to defend the project.
“We are here to remind people that these debates have already taken place! We have already held referendums and large demonstrations. We have shown that the LGV is useless”, explains Martine, one of the demonstrators. Before their entry, each elected was greeted by the crowd, some were booed, others applauded. A big absentee: Alain Rousset well present at the meeting but who obviously wanted avoid the procession.
Alain Rousset, discreet
The President of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region spoke at the end of the meeting, the demonstrators were gone. “It will be necessary to analyze whether a single line dating back 160 years has the capacity to take thousands of trucks off the road! We now accept that there are 10,000 trucks a day that have made a piece of the road. ‘A83, the most polluted part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. “
A new mobilization at the initiative of Cade, a collective of environmental defense associations, and in the presence of several parties such as EH Bai, LFI, EELV, Génération (s) and DLF. Members of the environmental association Bizi! were also in the game.
– Tristan Barreau