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On May 21, 2025

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NOuvelle Marathon viewers earlier than administrative justice for the freeway between Castres and Toulouse. Supporters and opponents of the A69 met for nearly 4 hours to trade their arguments like a tennis assembly earlier than the executive courtroom of enchantment. But by reversing the roles.

For the primary spherical of this “return match” for the reason that shock suspension of the positioning by the Toulouse administrative courtroom final February, the attorneys of the opponents performed “in defense” and spoke the final. This time, it’s the concessionary corporations, but additionally the State and the communities supporting this 70 km motorway connection undertaking that counteratta.

“It is not common for justice to decide on the fate of a work already made at 80 %,” stated the general public rapporteur. Frédéric Dard rapidly repels the accusation of opponents who denounce a “strategy of the fait accompli”: “a more controversial than legal allegation”, in accordance with the younger bearded Justice of the Peace. Over the pages of his reasoning learn for 45 minutes in a monocorded voice and generally little assured, some arguments of supporters of the A69 are additionally excluded: the advance in highway security doesn’t appear “significant”, the present RN 126 not being significantly “accident”. Caution, the general public rapporteur even leaves “the enormous risk” of affirmation of the trial judgment by the Court of Appeal.

The freeway in comparison with the Canal du Midi

Frédédric Dard declares himself, nevertheless, “unconvinced” by the arguments of the magistrates of the executive courtroom, which based mostly on the idea of “imperative reason for major public interest” (RIIPM) ensuing from European legislation to censor a piece nevertheless acknowledged “of public utility” by the Council of State. But earlier than the case is once more examined once more on the deserves by the Court of Appeal, he advocates granting with out ready for the inexperienced mild anticipated by the supporters of the A69 to restart the positioning. To the idea of emergency invoked on each side, the rapporteur recovers in a very long time by evaluating the freeway to the venerable Canal du Midi, dug beneath Louis XIV and now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The comparability brings me out of her terrace of her hinges. The historic lawyer of France Nature Environnement declares himself “scandalized” that one dares to check a future paved quick route with the historic channel bordered by airplane bushes which serves as a vacationer postcard to the entire area. It prevents on the finish of a river pleading of almost 60 minutes that it will likely be essential to replant far more than the 300 bushes as soon as defended by “squirrels” militants on the positioning of the A69 to reborn the positioning within the occasion of ultimate victory of the opponents.

On the opposite facet of the bar, the lawyer of the Tarn Departmental Council and the Tarn communities involved by the route needs to emphasise that the 160,000 inhabitants of the Castres-Mazamet basin are awaiting a fast resumption of the positioning. “Our legal system does not advocate decrease,” says Me Courrèges. The Occitanie area has additionally made its voice heard. Coming from Dordogne the place he defended Beynac’s deviation undertaking, challenged even earlier than the Council of State within the identify of the protection of the panorama and heritage, Me Heymans spins the rail metaphor by evaluating the freeway to the easiest way to hold up “the wagon” of Castres-Mazamet to the financial “locomotive” of the Toulouse metropolis.

A seller on the verge of chapter?

The defenders of the concessionaire, ATOSCA, and the principle public works firm engaged on the positioning have argued the fragile monetary scenario of their prospects for the reason that sudden cease of earthworks. Atosca’s lawyer even agitates the spectrum of a cessation of funds. The Guintoli firm carried out 87 layoffs, denounced 127 non permanent contracts and 67 contracts with subcontractors.

The monetary injury is estimated at greater than 7 million euros and the one safety of the positioning would have already value between 17 and 19 million euros. Figures relativized by protection attorneys. The accomplice of Me Terrasse mentions the annual turnover of the corporate to show that the group would have the kidneys sturdy sufficient to fill the losses of Atosca.

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The lawyer for motorways within the south of France prefers to play a low profile. The subsidiary of the Vinci group is liable for increasing its 7km freeway portion that makes the junction with the A68 (Toulouse-Albi). He took the chance to dismantle the argument of the general public rapporteur on highway security by emphasizing the specificity of the small part of the A680 in Haute-Garonne, “much more dangerous” for the reason that cease of labor with motorists who don’t respect the limitation to 70 km/h on the positioning, which remained open to site visitors.

Sites specialists emphasize that even when the Court of Appeal adopted the suggestions of the general public rapporteur, the work won’t be able to renew earlier than “two or three months”. The attorneys will argue that the magistrates have, in any occasion, no “approval” energy of the positioning: if the courtroom grants the requested execution, it’s the state which should give the inexperienced mild to the resumption of the work.

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