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Part of the story has just been washed away by erosion. On the landing beaches at Grandcamp-Maisy, a blockhouse fell from the cliff. The direct consequence of global warming and the inevitable advance of the sea.
It was a fort, a piece of the Atlantic wall, hard as rock. One day in March, it tipped over from its promontory in Grandcamp-Maisy (Calvados). The spectacle is striking for the walker. “There, we cannot deny it, erosion”observes a woman. “We can see that it was a place for walking, because you have a railing up there”notes a man.
“The sea is there, it attacks”
The tobruk was planned to house a soldier and a machine gun. For several years, the cliff made up of earth has been crumbling, under the combined effect of runoff and sea currents. Today, there is something menacing about the unobstructed view of the skyline. “The sea is there, it attacks. In 3-4 years, as many things have happened as in perhaps 20 or 30 years”, notes Éric Poissonnière, the mayor of Grandcamp-Maisy. Below, the sea has also ended up dislocating the last vestiges of the defenses of the beach still observable in Normandy.
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