"Resistance" and "support".
Many of them took the microphone this Thursday evening in the square in front of Aubervilliers town hall.
Just over 200 people gathered there.
Residents, activists, citizens, politicians, members of collectives, all had come to shout their disagreement after the evacuation of the Gardens of Virtue, the same morning, around 7 a.m., thus responding to the invitation launched by the activists at the end of their expulsions.
"I have a thought for all those who put their lives on hold to defend these gardens and all those who fell in love with them," launches a young activist, very moved.
This morning, people in costume laughed at us because we were defending dirt.
In 2021, we are there.
To defend from the earth.
This contempt, I will not forget.
"
Aubervilliers, this Thursday, September 2.
Seventeen plots of the Jardins des Vertus will be destroyed at the end of the construction of the future training basin for the 2024 Olympic Games. The plots will be recreated a little further, assures the prefecture.
“It's been seven years that the inhabitants want a swimming pool, plague a young man.
The municipality never did anything.
And today they say it's for the good of the locals.
It is a pretext.
We don't want an Olympic-sized pool.
We just wanted a normal infrastructure.
"
“The project is based on dough, that's all.
"
For the supporters of the JAD (Gardens to defend), this fight is not only local, it is global.
“These are two worlds that clash.
That of the green flower pots against that of the true ecology, indicates a resident of Pantin and member of a collective.
The project is based on dough.
That's all.
"
Aubervilliers.
Thursday September 2.
More than 200 people gathered at Aubervilliers town hall to shout their disagreements over the evacuation of the Jardins des Vertus the same morning.
Another resident suggests "go in front of the bulldozers, us old people." Usually they don't affect us. Let's go ”. Everyone recalled the benefits of these gardens for the population. Their social, societal, environmental role. “We must not forget that they also feed families. Some groups also took advantage of the moment to also recall their own actions and ask for support.
The demonstration was held in peace.
However, she twitched a little when a former member of the Aubervilliers communist municipal team spoke in their favor and repeated his support.
His statement was taken as an affront.
"The land has been sold under this municipality," interrupts a participant.
The man wiped out a few boos then the speaking resumed.
A small convoy was formed and marched to the JAD.
The next step for the activists, while waiting for the response of the justice on their appeals, filed at the beginning of the week before the administrative court, will take place again in the street.
A new demonstration is organized on September 18.