Environmental activist and tree defender Thomas Brail, on hunger strike for 12 days against the A69 motorway project between Toulouse and Castres, left the hospital where he was taken Tuesday morning for acute chest pain, he told AFP.
“I thought it was a heart problem but in fact it was a tear in the shoulder. They did some tests and since there was nothing, I went out and climbed back into the tree” , he said, claiming to have left the hospital early Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Brail, founder of the National Tree Surveillance Group (GNSA), was still in a plane tree in front of the Occitanie Regional Council in Toulouse late Tuesday afternoon, and intended to stay there, continuing his strike. hungry, noted an AFP journalist.
Before setting up in front of the headquarters of the Occitanie region, whose PS president Carole Delga supports the A69 project, Thomas Brail had hung himself in recent weeks from several trees threatened by the highway construction site.
“I clearly call on the Minister of Transport to come see us,” the activist also declared on Tuesday, who is requesting a meeting with Ms. Delga.
In a letter addressed to the activist and broadcast on
According to the Ministry of Transport, “Minister Clément Beaune wants the State to listen and be represented at this meeting” with Ms. Delga. “The prefect will participate,” specifies the ministry.
At the end of the afternoon, during a rally in front of the Hôtel de Région, a few dozen opponents distributed leaflets to motorists and spoke to denounce an “anachronistic” project.
“All this for bitumen”, “Stop A69” or “immediate moratorium”, could we read on certain signs.
Thomas Brail greeted the demonstrators from the top of his tree, before being applauded.
Numerous administrative or legal appeals have been launched against the A69 but none have so far been successful. Opponents are now counting on a request to the Toulouse administrative court and an appeal filed in August with the Council of State to request the suspension of the work.
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