They had announced it, it is now done: opponents of the A69 motorway between Toulouse and Castres are filing an interim order to try to prevent the work on this A69. Attac, Les Amis de la Terre or France Nature Environnement explain in a press release that their request must be examined on July 25 at the Administrative Court of Toulouse.
A request for suspension of work
The ten associations denounce the “serious and irreversible consequences of damage to protected species and their inhabitants”. They also doubt the legality of the environmental authorization and accuse the State and Atosca, the concessionaire, “for keeping the public in the dark about some of the environmental impacts.”
The collective has already filed an appeal on the merits in June, which will not be judged for several months. “But there is an emergency, hence this summary suspension”, explains Gilles Garric, who works on legal issues for La Voie est libre. We are destroying a Natura 2000 zone in Saïx, with a bank of the Agout which has been cleared; the second bank must be preserved. I hope the judge will accept the urgency and judge on the merits. He can suspend work. We don’t want to be right when the motorway is finished, like in Strasbourg.”
Work on the A69 started in early March, and commissioning is scheduled for 2025. Last April, thousands of people marched peacefully against this project. Atosca, the dealer has always said on France Bleu Occitanie to have done things by the book.
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