New controversy in sight for Europe Écologie-Les Verts.
In an interview in
Nice Matin
Wednesday, September 30, Sylvie Bonaldi, an elected ecologist from Nice, said she approved the fire of a 5G antenna in Contes (Alpes-Maritimes), caused by two young people last June.
One of the two was justified at the end of September in the newspaper: “
Others had taken the step before us.
But the boxes were still there.
We were a little hot.
We were like, 'We're going to burn this crap on the air.
We wanted to finish the work already started
”.
“I don't condemn what he did. He defends the general interest. It makes it possible to delay the installation of the antenna (...) Unfortunately, there is no other way out, yet we are asking for one: to be heard. Let us ask ourselves, let us think about the issues of 5G. But this is not the case ”,
lamented the elected EELV, seeing in the operation of the two young men an
“ act of resistance ”
.
The two accused face a penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros.
EELV calls for a moratorium
“We have to put things flat, have real independent data on the health impact of 5G. Many scientists have warned about the possible dangers of 5G ”
, also wanted to underline Sylvie Bonaldi, thus joining the line his political family.
EELV wants a moratorium on this new technology, which should in particular allow a sharp increase in Internet speed.
However, the party is not at its first controversy on the subject.
At the beginning of July, the EELV mayor of Grenoble, Éric Piolle - also interested in the presidential election - had already indicated that
"roughly 5G is to allow us to watch porn movies in HD even when you are in your elevator"
.
The majority, which defends this technological transition, accuses environmentalists of wanting to
"waste time"
in France, or even of wanting a step backwards.
“
I hear many voices rising to explain to us that we should take up the complexity of contemporary problems by going back to the oil lamp!
I do not believe that the Amish model makes it possible to solve the challenges of contemporary ecology,
”even mocked Emmanuel Macron in mid-September in front of digital companies.
According to an Odoxa poll for
Le Figaro
, 55% of French people had judged that the head of state was right to keep his words.
Controversies that weaken the party
This new position is aligned with other controversies that marked the return of the Greens.
In Bordeaux, the EELV mayor, Pierre Hurmic, refused to install a giant fir tree, calling it
"a dead tree"
.
The environmentalist mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, judged the Tour de France to be
“macho and polluting”
.
An EELV advisor to the town hall of Paris Center, Jacques Boutault, had affirmed on CNEWS that the viewers of the Tour were for some of the unemployed who
"remain in their sofa to dream of exploits of hyper doped types".
So many positions, to say the least divisive, which have damaged the image of the party in recent weeks.
If, according to the poll cited above, 52% of French people believed in September that EELV was a party
"useful for our political life"
, they were 61% to think so in July.
In September, 47% of those questioned also judged the
"sectarian"
party
.