“We have already been imposed Colissimo, we saw nothing coming.
And now it's Zalando, whose building will be Colissimo five times, or 140,000 square meters!
It's fifteen football stadiums and in height, the equivalent of a seven-story building!
This tin monster is imposed on us… ”
Resident of Montereau-sur-le-Jard, Adrien does not mince his words, this Saturday afternoon, during the march organized by the collective Zalan'Dehors to which he belongs, but also the beneficial ecological association against excessive pollution of towns and villages (AEBCPEV) and Alternatiba.
About 70 people participate.
Objective: firmly challenge the announced establishment of Zalando, a German e-commerce giant specializing in the sale of clothing and shoes against Colissimo, the largest La Poste parcel processing platform in France.
"We are subjected to the decisions of people who do not even live here"
A petition against the project already has nearly 2,500 signatures and the public inquiry necessary for the modification of the local urban plan has already generated pages of arguments against this installation.
“This Colissimo platform is La Poste's flagship.
We're lucky to have it here, ”quipped Geraldine, another member of the Zalan'Dehors collective, who has lived in the village for twenty-five years.
“La Poste announces 250 trucks per day, or even 350 during peak periods.
And for Zalando we are told about 150 trucks per day.
That doesn't seem like much for a building five times the size.
We are told that there will be a maximum of 550 trucks every day, but we have chosen to live in the countryside for the peace, the nature, the wheat fields!
We are subjected to the decisions of people who don't even live here, ”she proclaims.
Because it is essentially the Melun Val de Seine agglomeration community, in charge of economic development, which is piloting the project.
Even if it bypasses the heart of the village, the flow of vehicles announced goes badly.
That's not all.
“We are being sold 2,000 jobs created, but we met the general manager of Zalando in charge of development in Europe at the CAMVS headquarters.
There will actually be 1,700 jobs.
They will not be Zalando employees, but service providers recruited by Arvator, an interim company, ”assures Geraldine.
“We prefer companies on a human scale, which offer long-term employment.
There were empty logistics sites near Sénart, ”sighs Adrien.
Several angry elected officials
Launched shortly after 1:30 p.m., the procession arrives in front of the town hall of the village an hour later.
Several elected officials speak, in particular Bénédicte Monville (EELV), elected opposition to Melun and the CAMVS, opposed to the project from the beginning, and candidate for the departmental elections.
“Seine-et-Marne is half of Ile-de-France.
50% of its surface is agricultural land which attracts all kinds of envy.
Zalando is a huge distributor of goods produced by others, thousands of miles away.
He distributes them to the detriment of businesses.
Rather than selling their products by people whose job it is, they use artificial intelligence software and have their trailer trucks filled to capacity.
We cannot cry in the face of unemployment and create the conditions for there to be even more unemployment.
"
His partner, Julien Guérin (GRS), protested "that we roll out the red carpet to a group which loots local businesses, establishes low wages, precariousness and the absence of unions!"
On the board of CAMVS, only our group spoke out against the project!
"
In the audience is Hervé Jeannin (SE), mayor of Crisenoy, already mobilized against a logistics zone and a prison of 1000 places in his village. "It's the same fight: the lack of consultation with the population and the use of agricultural land." Contacted, the mayor of Montereau-sur-le-Jard could not be reached.
