“Our room for maneuver is very narrow, the operator slipped through a mouse hole
,” laments Guy Mary, the mayor of Chaillevette.
Located near Royan, in Charente-Maritime, this village is fighting against Free and the installation of a 37-meter-high relay antenna on private land, “
not buildable and partly liable to flooding”
.
In December, the elected official refused to sign the preliminary declaration of work and immediately found himself confronted with a judge in chambers.
“Thanks to a formal defect, Free won the case.
We are now awaiting a decision from the administrative court, but I am not very optimistic.
The operator can even start work these days”
, summarizes Guy Mary who already counts, on the territory of Chaillevette alone, three relay antennas installed on a water tower and a fourth fixed on a 12-meter mast.
The history of this commune is not an isolated case.
Everywhere in France, local authorities are seeing new branches spring up…
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