In Haute-Savoie, opponents of the A412 motorway take legal action to demand that the construction site be stopped

A new legal procedure to stop a highway project. After the A69 in Tarn, it is in Haute-Savoie that a group of associations, farmers and local residents are demanding, on Wednesday October 14, before the administrative courts the suspension of work on a motorway. They actually believe that the environmental consequences of such work go “contrary to the climate emergency”.

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The Lyon administrative court of appeal, urgently requested to stop the A412 construction site which began on September 1, will deliver its decision on Thursday.

At the same time, in the Chablais region, on the edge of Switzerland, these 21 organizations and 40 local residents organize almost daily sit-ins and occupations of the peaks by climbers to slow down the very rapid progress of forest fellers, in the face of police who dislodge them. At the cost, to date, of "47 police custody and countless fines", assured the collective during a press conference.

According to the State and the concessionaire Amedea, a subsidiary of the Eiffage group, the A412 (a 16.5 kilometer section) is supposed to relieve and streamline the intense commuting traffic between Thonon-les-Bains and the greater Geneva area, a route taken daily by an active population who live on the French side but work in Switzerland for salaries on average three times higher.