In Notre-Dame-des-Landes (Loire-Atlantique)
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All is not well on the ZAD.”
Nearly six years after the abandonment of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project, local elected officials are sounding the alarm.
“For three years there has been an increase in illegal installations.
New arrivals, young, lost, oppose the Zadists who carry out official projects without causing problems
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explains the mayor (various right) of Vigneux-de-Bretagne Gwënola Franco.
The immense former zone to be defended of 1,425 hectares now has 150 to 200 inhabitants per year, double that in summer.
In this group of small hamlets governed by a sort of trustee (“the assembly of uses”), we find a forge, a library or a screen printing workshop.
Tensions over land sharing had subsided.
Forty rural leases were signed between the department - which recovered 75% of the land - and historic farmers or new Zadist project leaders.
“We don’t see any violence, but…
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