activists invest the plane trees against the National Assembly – Liberation

Squirrels resume the struggle. During the night of June 1 to 2, climbers from the National Trees Surveillance Group (GNSA) settled in plane trees near the National Assembly. « This is a demanding and media occupation », warned the collective in a press release. Because MPs Take a bill on Monday on a bill on Monday Already passed in the Senate which aims to retroactively validate the environmental authorizations of the A69, this ribbon of bitumen under construction between Toulouse and Castres, and prevent a possible new stop of the work.

The Toulouse administrative court canceled these authorizations on February 27, stopping the site and « Acting the illegality of a project that had started without the appeals having been purged »recalls the GNSA, this group which mediated the A69 file when one of its members, Thomas Brailstarted a hunger strike in 2023. If The Court of Appeal authorized the resumption of work On May 28, pronouncing on an emergency appeal filed by the State which wants to see the site resume without delay, it must still decide on the merits in several months.

For defenders of the text, which gives the project a « Imperative reason for major public interest » To open up the territory, paving the way for derogations from the protection of species, the law would bring legal certainty before this decision expected on the merits.

With Releasethe GNSA claims to want to alert this « Brèche in our democratic system » whose repercussions go beyond the motorway project. « This bill initiated by four Tarn parliamentarians, ardently supported by the State, has the sole objective of in addition to a court decision, thus trampling the rule of law and the separation of powers, for the benefit of a private concessionaire »castigates the collective. « It is urgent to stop this unjustified and ecocidal project criticized by the inhabitants, scientists and civil society « also argue the activists, arguing that The damage caused landscapes are reversible.

For their part, the rebellious deputies and environmentalists, opposed to the construction of the A69, deposited almost all of the 695 amendments. If they all were to be examined on Monday, they would almost make a vote before midnight, the National Assembly continuing its work on Tuesday on other texts.

« An obstruction process assumed to avoid the discussion and the vote of the law, largely adopted in committee »criticized Jean Terlier, the deputy of the Tarn at the origin of the bill. Insoumise France has also filed a preliminary rejection motion, which must be studied before the amendments. A strategy that Jean Terlier also considered to return his text to the joint joint committee (CMP). « I do not despair of convincing the oppositions to withdraw their amendments »he said, however, with Release. For the GNSA, « It is in the field of administrative justice that the future of this 20th century project must be played out, not in a hemicycle ».