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"The air must no longer be part of a child's dreams": the mayor EELV of Poitiers arouses controversy

2021-04-03T16:40:39.582Z


In a video relayed on social networks, Léonore Moncond'huy justifies his decision to remove the subsidies intended for the city's flying clubs.


After Strasbourg, Lyon, Bordeaux ... It is the turn of the green town hall of Poitiers to trigger a controversy.

Monday, March 29, in municipal council, the mayor EELV Léonore Moncond'huy confirmed the choice of his elected representative in sports to remove the subsidies allocated to the city's flying clubs.

"

The air is sad, but should no longer be part of childhood dreams today,

" she replied to the elected member of the LREM group Isabelle Chédanneau.

The latter had just reminded him that "these

associations allowed young Poitevins to pass the aeronautical initiation certificate and also hosted the operation" Rêves de gosses "

", an annual event which allows children suffering from a handicap of taking a plane ride.

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In this recording relayed by the specialized site Aerobuzz, Léonore Moncond'huy bases his decision on budgetary criteria, before very quickly engaging in an ideological register.

"We consider that public money should no longer finance sports based on the consumption of exhaustible resources

,

" she

explains.

Public money must send a signal of responsibility.

Put in the same sentence 'children's dream' and 'the fact of saving air clubs', that has something indecent ”, continues

the city councilor.

“Your intervention is somewhat based on pathos, which aims to make me understand that it is harming children to call these subsidies into question.

On the contrary, I consider that it is to protect their future,

”she insists, still for Isabelle Chédanneau.

This exchange between the two women took place after, on March 16, the leaders of the Aéro-club du Poitou received an e-mail from the elected sportsman of Poitiers, Maxime Pedeboscq:

“Following your request for subsidy, I would like to alert you that the City of Poitiers does not intend to support motor sport.

"A laconic message that angered the club president Jean-Marie Arnault:"

For a team which had in its program always more dialogue, we expected better in terms of consultation.

We haven't seen anyone,

”he complained to

La Nouvelle République

.

Wave of political reactions

The political reactions were not long in coming, first and foremost that of the Minister of Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, a former business jet pilot.

This one evokes in a tweet of the

authoritarian and moribund rantings.

"

"

Dogmatism, cynicism, and sadness

", comments for her part Maud Bregeon, spokesperson for En Marche and native of Poitiers.

Prevent our children from dreaming,

” adds Aurore Bergé, Member of Parliament for Yvelines and deputy president of the LREM group at the National Assembly.

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At the National Gathering, the vice-president of the party Jordan Bardella believes that "

the green ayatollahs have struck again, this time in

Poitiers

by brutally cutting aid to flying clubs because" the air should no longer be a child's dream. "

Their objective ?

To extinguish all joy, to stifle all ambition, to lead France towards a gloomy and sinister society. ”

"

Banning, punishing, charging, slowing down innovation, wanting to destroy sectors of industrial excellence such as nuclear and aeronautics, attacking children's dreams: this is the true face of these" greens "who do not nothing environmentalist

"

,

said Marine Le Pen, always on Twitter.

For the deputy RN Gilbert Collard, this decision also penalizes the most vulnerable people.

The EELV town hall of Poitiers is removing subsidies to flying clubs welcoming disabled children on the pretext that air travel should no longer make children dream.

Soon, they will ban Saint-Exupéry, burn "Night Flight" and behead the Little Prince! "

Repeated controversies in green town halls

This is not the first time that environmentalists at the helm of a municipality have triggered outrageous reactions.

In September 2020, the mayor of Bordeaux EELV Pierre Hurmic opposed the arrival of

“dead trees

” to decorate the Bordeaux squares during the end of year celebrations.

He had announced that the traditional Christmas trees would be replaced by live shows.

Likewise, in Strasbourg, the environmentalist mayor Jeanne Barseghian has repeatedly drawn the wrath of the political world.

Recently, on March 22, the municipality made two controversial decisions in just 24 hours.

First, there was the vote of a "

principle of a subsidy

" of 2.5 million euros for the construction of a mosque supported by a federation linked to Turkey.

Then the town hall refused to recognize the definition of anti-Semitism given by the International Alliance for the Remembrance of the Holocaust.

In Lyon, Mayor Grégory Doucet has also fueled the debates since his election in June.

Recently, in February, the ecologist wanted to temporarily remove the meat from school canteens to speed up the reception rates of students, due to the pandemic.

A decision that made all sides of the political spectrum react.

Previously, in the summer of 2020, he created an uproar by deeming

the Tour de France

"

macho

" and "

polluting

".

In September 2020, Grégory Doucet refused to participate in the mass organized by the diocese, on the occasion of the traditional Vow of the Aldermen.

Finally, a month after his election, it was his refusal to let the Patrol of France fly over Lyon for July 14 that hit the headlines.

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Source: lefigaro

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