the appeal against the media village in Seine-Saint-Denis rejected

In this summary appeal (emergency measure) filed on January 28 before the Administrative Court of Appeal of Paris, the National Movement for the Fight for the Environment (MNLE 93), the Collectif pour le Triangle de Gonesse and a dozen ‘users of this immense park demanded the cancellation of the cession of the land by the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis.

“These plots, assigned for decades to leisure and sports, festivals, these green and wooded spaces with their biodiversity, their flora and fauna will be destroyed and sold in batches to concrete mixers and promoters”, denounced these opponents.

The sale of part of the “Aire des Vents”, located in the town of Dugny, was voted on December 10, in favor of the delivery company of Olympic works (Solideo) for 6.9 million euros .

The area, partly concrete and which traditionally hosts the Huma Festival, must be transformed for the Olympic Games. The project plans to build the media village there, which will then become an eco-district with 1,300 homes and shops.

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Opponents denounce a “definitive artificialization” and “amputation” of this 400-hectare park, located for the most part in the commune of Courneuve, the green lung of a very densely populated department, where “the population is increasing every year. year of 15,000 new inhabitants ”.

The group of associations will file a new legal action, this time against the environmental authorization issued by the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis, said Jean-Marie Baty, president of MNLE 93 on Saturday.

The opponents do not intend to surrender: “We have already led the fight against Europacity -project of megacomplex of leisure and commerce which was to settle on the lands of the Triangle de Gonesse, in the Val-d’Oise-, of which we said it was David against Goliath, and we won it, ”argues Jean-Marie Baty.

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