In France, some of our villages are institutions. From Monet's garden in Giverny to the cliffs of Etretat, via the medieval city with the seven bell towers of Belvès, we marvel at these exceptional places. "We are known to house the ZAD which serves as a reference on the national and even international level," blows an elected official of one of the municipalities of the former "zone to defend" against the airport project of the Great West, in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. "The zadistes do not even have a fight to fight: the project has been abandoned and yet they remain," whispers Gwënola Franco, mayor of Vigneux-de-Bretagne. A neighbor adds: "Notre-Dame-des-Landes is a bit like the headquarters of the zadistes of France. A year-round, there are about a hundred illegal occupants."
But when the sunny days arrive, Gwënola Franco continues, the numbers double, "at least". The nuisance is intensifying. Rave parties, too. "It's not an inactive ZAD," she insists. It's sustainable and, frankly...
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