“Desolation”, “heartbreak”… The anger of the people who are brought out against the work on the LGV line Bordeaux-Toulouse

In some cities, work has begun to build the LGV line Bordeaux-Toulouse, which will put the pink city 3 hours from Paris in 2032.

Among those who opposed the project, many had to move because of the new route.

The TF1 team went to meet the evacuees.

Covers closed and yard empty. For a week, Josiane’s house in Saint-Médard-d’Eyrans (Gironde) has been empty. Only 30 years of memory of this evicted tenant remain. “It’s a desert. It’s very hard to leave everything behind. You feel like you’re losing a part of yourself. It worked so hard on me that I lost ten kilos. It’s very hard”, she mourns.

It’s heartbreaking. It is an illness that eats you from the inside.

Johnny

This expropriation is the result of the work planned for the line LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse, which will send Toulouse three hours from Paris in 2032, at an estimated cost of 14 billion euros. “It’s heartbreak. It’s evil that eats you up from the inside. Where are we going? I don’t want to go anywhere”cried Josiane, when the TF1 team went to meet her in March. Unlike others, the latter was able to find a new lease that matched her modest retirement. But the house in which she will leave a good part of her life is doomed.

Philippe is in charge of one of the many groups that oppose the project. “Everything was destroyed, and everything to build a new bridge,” he shouts angrily in front of an empty plot of land in southern Bordeaux. “There will be a sound barrier, in this town, the smooth roads will no longer exist, the town will be completely changed. “warning the opponent.

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If work has begun in the south of Bordeaux and north of Toulouse, in Bressols (Tarn-et-Garonne), some residents still do not know what the future holds for them. Véronique and José-Bernard Fabas know that one day they will be expelled. Therefore, they have not invested in their home for many years. “We built the swimming pool in 2007, and nobody told us that there was an LGV project. We wouldn’t have built the swimming pool otherwise. We stopped the work.”said Véronique.

“We don’t want to leave. It’s our house, we built it, our children were born there, our grandchildren were kept there…”she admits, her throat tight. If some residents have already sold amicably, the couple has not yet received anything from the SNCF. “We can’t attack anything, we can’t finish anything”, explains Jose-Bernard. “We don’t know what they’re going to give us, we don’t have information,” adds his partner, who was interviewed in the report at the top of this article.

Near Montauban, a new station, hospital, shops, and the new LGV are planned to run parallel to the existing network. “At first, we didn’t suspect that the city would be so affected”referring to the mayor of Bressols, Jean-Louis Ibres. Wishing to help the 30 homes that had been evicted from the town to find solutions, he decided to buy as much building land as he could.