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Grenoble, Lyon, Strasbourg, Besançon: elected officials demand a moratorium on 5G

Nearly 70 elected officials from the left and environmentalists, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot or the mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola, are asking the government for a moratorium on the deployment of 5G in an article published by The Sunday Newspaper.

The government’s decision to allocate frequencies in September “comes without a climatic and environmental impact study or any prior public consultation”, deplore the signatories, including the new green mayors of Strasbourg, Jeanne Barseghian, Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, from Lyon Grégory Doucet or from Besançon, Anne Vignot.

“Priority to reducing the digital divide”

“We, mayors and elected officials, are immediately proposing a moratorium on the deployment of 5G at least until the summer of 2021”, as well as the “holding of a decentralized democratic debate on 5G and on digital uses “, they write.

“We ask that priority be given to reducing the digital divide, through the development of fiber in rural areas and by finalizing the deployment of 4G”, they add.

Nearly 70 signatories

Signatories also include Eric Piolle, ecological mayor of Grenoble, LFI MP François Ruffin and Jean-François Debat, PS mayor of Bourg-en-Bresse.

But also Laurent Amadieu, EELV mayor of Saint-Égrève, Josselyne Bardet, mayor of Poët-Laval, Florent Cholat, DVG mayor of Champagnier, Béatrice Delorme, EELV mayor of Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d’Or, Francis Dietrich, DVG mayor of Champ-sur-Drac, Pia Imbs, DVG mayor of Holtzheim, Pierre Ploner, mayor of Dun-sur-Meuse, Cédric Van Styvendael, PS mayor of Villeurbanne, or even Caroline Fiat, LFI member of Meurthe-et-Moselle , Guillaume Gontard and senator from Isère.

In July, EELV had already asked, in a motion adopted almost unanimously by the hundred federal councilors of the party, a “moratorium on 5G” which will generate “a big inflation of electricity consumption” and allow “the collection of personal data”.

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