Monday, January 25, 2016

Notre-Dame-des-Landes: Judge approves all expropriations – Les Echos

For the airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, its supporters and opponents, it was double or quits on Monday. And it is left for anti-airports. Pierre Gramaize, first vice president of the high court of Nantes, has indeed ordered the expulsion within two months of eleven families and four farms, opponents of the Grand Ouest Airport project.

Eight of the eleven families were granted a two-month period, running until March 26. “ The evacuation may start for farms” and Non families concerned by the delay, he has said in announcing his decision.

At a hearing in chambers, January 13, Aéroports du Grand Ouest (AGO) Vinci Group subsidiary and dealership site had indeed called for the immediate expulsion of eleven family and four farmers, historical opponents of the airport project, along with a daily penalty of EUR 200-1000 and a sequestration of their property if they did not comply.

“The principle of the penalty was not justified ” because the -ci is “ disproportionate for families who have only modest incomes (…) The individual circumstances of each case has been investigated, including the presence of children, in accordance with the European Convention on human rights, Human and Child Rights , “said the judge who has closely studied the case of a person of 83 years.

This procedure, crucial for the future of the site, had been revived after the announcement by the government in late October, the resumption of jobs from … 2012 ( see box). But beware, nothing is totally committed to the supporters of Grand Ouest Airport. While evictions begin only on March 26, “ this fact defers the site a year “, observe opponents of the project.

There is indeed a calendar, particularly for wetland Notre-Dame-des-Landes, which provides for periods of work would be illegal (see the tweet below -ci ). And the decree dated 20 December 2013 (see here), also states that “any tree cutting is prohibited between March 10 and July 15″

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A report of the work that Senator ecologist Loire-Atlantique Renan Dantec (see his tweet) wants to use for “engaging independent studies.” During the interim of 13 January, the lawyer Vinci, Rajess Ramdenie, pleaded “ emergency to make room net ” to the work. He stressed that the expropriation order of the prefect dated from January 2012 and that its validity is five years, this procedure would be invalid … in January 2017. As for the declaration of public utility of the project, as Order was published February 10, 2008, this leaves until February 10, 2018.

Contact by “Les Echos”, a spokesman Vinci said that the group “ does not comment on decisions of justice .”

Regarding regards compensation, the farmers concerned had obtained in January (see below) “ six years gross operating margin

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Notre-Dame-des-Landes: a project, years of procrastination

1965 : the Loire-Atlantique Prefect starts the search of a “new aviation site for Brittany and Pays de la Loire”.
1974 : a holding zone (ZAD) is created by prefectural, leading for 20 years the progressive pre-emption of land by the General Council.
October 26, 2000 . Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin decided the realization of the airport
February 10, 2008 ‘s statement public utility (DUP) is published following a favorable opinion of the Commission of Inquiry
December 30, 2010 . Vinci gets the design, financing, construction and operation of future airport during 55 years
October 18, 2013 : the Council of State rejected an appeal against the opponents of public utility declaration
February 22, 2014. anti-airport event brings together 20,000 to 60,000 people in Nantes and ends in violence
June 17, 2015 . The Supreme Court dismissed appeals against orders expropriation of January 2012.
17 July 2015 The Nantes Administrative Court rejects appeal against prefectural orders authorizing the work. Opponents call.
30 October 2015 The prefecture announced the resumption of work for 2016.

“Areas to defend”

Since the declaration of public utility in 2008, 244 people who lived on the site have agreed to leave amicably remind supporters of the airport. But some farmers refused to sell their land and families, former owners or tenants of houses retroceded to AGO, for some present for generations, insist they will not leave.

The site became the battleground between opponents who occupy the holding zone (ZAD), renamed them “zone defense” and supporters of the future Airport Grand Ouest. Two hundred “zadistes” permanently occupy the site, some three years ago.

Opponents of the platform must be created on the lands of the former Prime Minister Jean -Marc Ayrault, Hollande accused of having “betrayed” its commitment (made in 2012) to freeze evictions until the appeals against the project have not been exhausted. This agreement includes in their appeal procedures and therefore one introduced after the rejection of their environmental action July 17 by the Administrative Court of Nantes, which had validated the prefectural orders authorizing the start of construction.



Avoid a new Sivens

For supporters of the project at hand, local communities in mind the commitments “have been scrupulously respected,” those -ci limited to appeals filed before May 4, 2012, when the agreement was signed. The transfer of the existing airport to the site of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, an old project over 40 years, was originally scheduled to end in 2017.

“Obviously the state is more firm when it comes to spending money rather than collecting In. One way or another, the economic lobbies overdetermine state arbitrations , “responded the association France Nature Environnement. After the judgment, calls for demonstrations against evictions _ in Toulouse, Rennes, Brest, Belleville (Paris), Towers, etc. _ont bloomed on Twitter. Beyond legal issues and land use, the government is also worried Valls: avoid at all costs that the confrontation between pro and anti-NDDL degenerating and a repeat disaster Sivens during which a Young opposing the dam, Rémi Fraisse, was killed during a confrontation with police

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