New controversy for an EELV mayor.
This time it is the mayor of Poitiers, Léonore Moncond’huy, 30 years old.
This canceled the subsidy granted to the two aeroclubs of her city: “The city of Poitiers does not intend to support motor sport”, she wrote to them, according to the Aerobuzz website.
Attacked on this subject by his opposition in city council, on March 29, the city councilor remained straight in his boots … and had shocking words.
“The air must no longer be part of a child’s dreams”
She began by explaining: “The issue of the climate emergency involves reviewing all of our software (…) Today, public money must send a signal of responsibility”.
Then, she added: “To put in the same sentence ‘childhood dream’ and the fact of saving air clubs, I find that that has something indecent (…) You do not realize the dreams of which we must preserve the children, the air, it is sad, but must not be any more part of the dreams of children today “.
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It is this sentence, obviously, which provoked the controversy.
The Minister for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebarri, denounced Friday “authoritarian and moribund rantings”.
He was joined by political figures from quite a different side.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of rebellious France, wrote on Twitter: “Dreams are always free. Signed Icare”, in reference to the Greek hero.
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Less lyrical, but more pugnacious, the president of the National Rally tweeted: “Prohibit, punish, charge, slow down innovation, want to destroy sectors of industrial excellence such as nuclear and aeronautics, attack dreams children: this is the real face of these “greens” who have nothing to do with the environment. MLP
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“Umpteenth controversy where the stake seems above all to attack environmentalists,” for his part retorted this Saturday on Twitter the national secretary of Europe-Ecology-The Greens, Julien Bayou.
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