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Olympics 2024: work on the Aubervilliers training pool can resume

2021-11-23T17:23:02.104Z


After a false start, the work on the training pool in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) obtained the green light from the administrative justice on Tuesday, and must now keep the schedule.


On part of the Fort d'Aubervilliers site, in the heart of one of the poorest municipalities in the Paris region, workers and excavators will be able to resume service to build the aquatic center for the future Olympic Games in Paris 2024. “

The summary judge granted the request of the municipality of Aubervilliers and lifted the effects of the suspension he had ordered on September 20, as well as the injunction to end the work concerned. The work of the aquatic center can therefore legally resume

", Indicated the administrative court of appeal of Paris in a press release.

This court, competent to settle disputes related to the Olympic Games, considered that it had obtained sufficient pledges from the City of Aubervilliers, carrier of this future equipment which will be accessible to the general public after the world sporting event.

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In this department, 60% of children do not know how to swim when they enter sixth grade (around 11 years old), especially for lack of infrastructure. The City did not take the risk of waiting at the beginning of December, and the hearing in the background, to change its course. After the suspension of the works, it proposed an amending building permit and changes in the project, starting with the removal of a restaurant annexed to the swimming pool, now removed in favor of a "

fitness and well-being space

" . "

I welcome the decision of the summary judge who took into consideration the seriousness of our case that we have changed compared to the initial project set up by the previous majority

", declared the mayor (UDI) Karine Franclet, "

convinced of necessity

" of the swimming pool.

The anger of the opponents remains

These changes are still considered insufficient by the two associations for the defense of the environment and the three gardeners at the initiative of the emergency procedure against the project, which involves the destruction of approximately 4,000 m2 of plots of old allotment gardens. a hundred years. The majority of the gardeners concerned have been moved to other neighboring plots by Grand Paris Aménagement, owner of the land. Not enough to calm the anger of opponents, who denounce the artificialization of soils in an already densely populated area. They are asking for a complete overhaul of the project, the solarium of which encroaches on the vegetable gardens. The green light granted to the site "

is the demonstration that the Olympic law, which is above all,sacrifices the quality of life of the populations concerned

», Deplores Jean-Marie Baty, president of the MNLE 93 (National Movement for the Fight for the Environment) to AFP.

The pool must move fast now

Another Olympic record has seen a similar turnaround. In April, the same court had interrupted the work of the media village in Dugny, also in Seine-Saint-Denis. After the study of the file in the background, it had reversed, authorizing the resumption of the site three months later. The legal turmoil has another impact on the swimming pool, which is engaged in a speed race. To be stamped an Olympic book, it must fit into the already tight schedule. Otherwise it will be impossible for it to claim subsidies from the Solideo (the company responsible for delivering the works for the 2024 Olympics), which must pay a third of the 33 million euros needed for its construction. For its part, the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee (Cojo) is advancing cautiously on this file,ensuring that the pool will be used if it is ready. Otherwise, another solution would be found, he says. In March, the Noisy-le-Sec Olympic swimming pool project fell through, immediately replaced by the Montreuil swimming pool as a training site.

Source: lefigaro

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