Lille-Lesquin airport is part of a list of 42 contested projects being monitored by the Interior Ministry. The project includes the expansion of the terminal, the creation of a new car park and the widening of the main runway.
"We want to breathe", "climate, planes, we must choose", proclaimed the placards of the demonstrators, who left around 10 am in four processions. "Noise is a major public health problem" causing "sleep disorders, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases"