No one pretends, by Daniel Schneidermann – Liberation

Red alert on BFM! Elected officials from Rennes would have welcomed the project to set up a Safran factory by « Tomato jets ». To the point that the aeronautical equipment supplier has decided to cease any establishment in the cities led by environmentalists. It is the CEO, Olivier Andriès, who announced it itself during its hearing by a commission of the National Assembly, by detailing the project thus targeted: an Aubages of Turbines Aubes of Rafale and Airbus A320 engines (Neo category « Which displays the ambition to consume 15 % less energy »).

« We totally respected it, what we call it, the Zero net artificialization»» Starts the CEO, manifestly riding on this hostile term. And there « The ecologists, sorry, the environmentalists, threw us tomatoes, on the theme » It’s scandalous, it’s the plane, they will pollute, and then it’s military, it’s not good «  » (For this is how environmentalists, cited by the CEO of Safran) are expressed. And draw the proud conclusion that is necessary: « For me, there is no longer any question of investing in France today, in a city held by an ecological majority. » This decision, that no one is wrong, « Is not political, but from the moment we forget the national interest … »