About fifty elected officials and associative activists gathered this Sunday morning in Fleury-Mérogis with a slogan summarized by Olivier Corzani (PCF), the mayor of the town: "The great crown is not the discharge of Grand Paris and Olympic Games construction sites!
Our land belongs to us, it is up to us to decide what to do with it.
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And the mayor of Fleury knows what he's talking about.
In 2017, his predecessor, David Derrouet (DVG), accepted that 300,000 tonnes of land be placed on the so-called 7 hectare land, an agricultural wasteland.
"A company specializing in the supply of topsoil will transport quality soil there" to, he promises, grow "legumes", even fruit trees.
The land is excavated to deposit site waste which ultimately turns out to be polluted.
"There are concrete, rubble, traces of hydrocarbon, asbestos, mercury, scrap, deplores Olivier Corzani, who filed a complaint against X. Today, this land is frozen, we can not nothing to do with it.
Everything should be cleaned up.
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"Everything is obscure, there is no traceability, the financial networks are not clear ..."
For the councilor, “we are dealing, in Ile-de-France, with mafia networks.
Everything is obscure, there is no traceability, the financial networks are not clear because the treatment of this land in dedicated channels is expensive and there are not enough controls.
We must find the culprits, judge them and condemn them.
”Olivier Corzani wants to create a collective at the Ile-de-France scale, in order to act against these projects.
Because even when these lands are not polluted, “they are dead, inert and therefore sterile.
You can't grow anything there for ten to fifty years, ”warns François Damerval (EELV), candidate for regional elections.
Stéphane Demeulemeester (SE), the mayor of Saint-Hilaire, came to support this approach, especially since his municipality fears an identical disaster: “We are facing a project to dump 1.5 million cubic meters of land. site, of which we do not know the origin, on 34 hectares of cultivated land.
The owner is a holding company which does business with Bouygues Travaux Publics.
More than a hundred elected officials from the department support us.
Nobody wants it.
We called on the Minister for the Ecological Transition.
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"We are helpless in the face of these projects"
“We are told about healthy, cultivable land, but each time, it is loaded with pollutants.
There, we are about a hundred meters from a river that could be polluted, which could affect watercress beds, ”fears Claude Jaillet, vice-president of the Association for the defense of health and the environment.
Kim Delmotte (SE), mayor of Cheptainville also made the trip.
In her town, she accidentally discovered a project involving 550,000 cubic meters of land.
“The owner, a farmer, contacted a waste company to dump this land in a former sand pit, in a wooded area.
I contacted the regional directorate of agriculture and forestry who advised me to take an order to stop this deforestation, which I did.
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Because the quarry is in a classified area and this project would be illegal if it happened.
"We are monitoring, ensures the elected.
We, the small towns, are helpless in the face of these projects which are being set up without our being aware of it.
It is everywhere.
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A site, laceinturetoxique.fr, lists all the sites in Ile-de-France already polluted or affected by such projects.
In Essonne alone, there are about fifteen.
