The town of Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine) has spent since 2014 ( VSGP) to buy the premises or business assets of nearly 80 businesses in the territory of the municipality. Opponents denounce a pharaonic investment, the amounts of which they judge to be “disproportionate to the stated objective” The mayor of the town counterattacks, saying: “80 million euros to buy businesses.
That’s a lot of money.”