Posted Apr 26, 2022, 5:42 PMUpdated on Apr 26, 2022 at 5:43 PM
This Tuesday, April 26, 2022, the State services were present in Limeil-Brévannes (Val-de-Marne). The Prefecture of Val-de-Marne has indeed announced that it has proceeded the same morning to the dismantling of a camp located at the Rond-Point des Oiseaux, on land belonging to the Green Spaces agency. Hundreds of people were reportedly evacuated. The Prefecture specified in a press release that “the families identified as vulnerable have benefited from an accommodation offer by the services of the municipality and the State”.
Installed in June 2021, the camp was located on a site which must accommodate work for Cable A, the first cable car in the Ile-de-France region. As a reminder, the future line, which will extend over 4.5 kilometers, will link Créteil to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. Made up of five stops, it will pass through Valenton and Limeil-Brévannes. While the commissioning of the cable car is scheduled for 2025, Laurent Probst, general manager of Île-de-France Mobilités, had indicated to “Echos” in February 2022 that the network rerouting work should begin in the second quarter of 2022.
Petition launched by the City
However, the municipality of Limeil-Brévannes feared that the presence of the camp on the ground would delay the start of the construction site because it would prevent the holding of preliminary archaeological operations. In September 2021, justice had indeed ordered the eviction of the occupants from March 25, 2022.
In mid-April, the town accused the State of “going back on its commitment” to dismantle the camp: the Prefecture, which had set the date for April 13, had finally postponed the operation the day before. A petition, which collected more than 750 signatures, had even been launched by the municipality. Following the dismantling this Tuesday, April 26, the mayor (LR) of Limeil-Brévannes, Françoise Lecoufle, welcomed this news, “after 10 months of waiting”.
In its statement, the Prefecture stressed that “no evacuation was […] possible before April 1, the date of the end of the winter break. The deputy (LREM) of the constituency, Laurent Saint-Martin, for his part welcomed the “end of a bad controversy”. Before denouncing: “Everyone will therefore have noted that the petition initiated by the municipality, just like the (small) media agitation to animate unfounded fears in a context of between-two rounds of the presidential election, were not at height. »
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