Six Nupes deputies announced Friday, September 16 the creation of a "
parliamentary front
" in order to "
take all measures
" against the plan to bury nuclear waste in Bure, in the Meuse, and to denounce the "
police repression
against his opponents.
"
We are committed here as parliamentarians to taking all measures to be able to block this harmful project
" which is "
not of general interest
", declared LFI deputy for Val-de-Marne Mathilde Panot, visiting Bure with five other elected members of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes).
“
We are going to use all the means available to parliamentarians: questions to the government, requests from commissions of inquiry, bills
,” added Mathilde Panot, according to whom “
at least a hundred
” left-wing parliamentarians have already joined this front.
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“
For example, we are going to look carefully at the cost of the project, which is not very clear
,” said the MP during a press conference in front of Lejuc wood, a communal forest acquired by the Agency. for radioactive waste management (Andra) in 2016 and for a time occupied by activists opposed to the project.
The premises now belonging to Andra, access is prohibited but the deputies still entered and walked there for an hour, accompanied by around thirty opponents.
“Unacceptable police repression”
Among the deputies present, Sandrine Rousseau (EELV), Aymeric Caron (LFI), Antoine Léaument (LFI), as well as the deputies of the neighboring departments of Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle, Charlotte Leduc (LFI) and Martine Etienne (LFI ), had made the trip.
The parliamentarians also denounced "
police repression
" which targets opponents.
They affirmed their refusal to see that this project, "
choice of human civilization
" which "
transforms a territory into a nuclear dustbin (...) and which engages current and future generations to this extent, can happen without any debate democratic
” and “
under unacceptable police repression
,” said Mathilde Panot.
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On the borders of the Meuse and the Haute-Marne, the Cigéo project, declared of public utility in July, aims to bury 500 meters underground 85,000 m3 of the most radioactive waste from the French nuclear fleet by 2035-2040.
For Daniel Monnier, elected from a village in Haute-Marne and spokesman for Eodra, a group of local elected officials against Cigéo, the arrival of the deputies is "
a first
" and a "
huge support
" because "
they have investigative tools, means of exerting pressure
” on the government and Andra, which is piloting the project.
As for Andra, it is not worried about the initiative of the deputies, indicating that “
on a complicated subject, it is logical that different tendencies can be expressed:
“, declared Patrice Torres, director of the laboratory installed in Bure, joined by AFP.
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