The idea was to build a
"
Noah's Ark of modern times
"
in the heart of Brittany.
To
“
combine the integration of refugees with the development of a territory
”
.
But Callac, a town of 2,200 inhabitants selected among twenty others by the Merci Endowment Fund, a family foundation created in 2009 for solidarity actions, will not be this
"
pioneer village
"
: the municipality has finally given up on this ambitious projectHorizon for welcoming refugees.
Two
"
patriotic
" demonstrations - with
"
anti- fascist
"
counter-demonstrations
-, death threats against elected officials, graffiti on the town hall... In the municipal team,
"it was tense at an unimaginable level, it 'was on the verge of rupture
, explained this Wednesday to AFP the mayor (DVG) Jean-Yves Rolland.
I was for the project but it was no longer tenable, the municipal council was going to fall.
I assume the decision to stop.”
The mayor intended to inform his constituents in the next municipal bulletin, but the information
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