The boots in the mud, Dominique Rougeau has a riveted look towards his peonies cut in half by the layout of the A69. “If the highway is not done, it would take ten years before you can plant flowers again because the earth has been mixed with lime”estimates this 69-year-old horticultural farmer, who had sold nine hectares of his exploitation for the connection of fifty-three kilometers between Castres (Tarn) and Toulouse. A site today stopped.
Since March 3, four days after the cancellation of the environmental authorization of the project by the Toulouse Administrative Court, around fifty workers and around thirty devices withdrew from the Domaine de Bazialgues, in Verfeil (Haute-Garonne), leaving behind a wide strip of turned land, dug in places up to eight meters deep, and small piles of pozzolane-a natural volcanic rock- posed on both sides of an unfinished art work.
If silence has settled in this place, as in the entire layout of this infrastructure, which has become the symbol of environmental struggles, the confrontation between opponents and supporters is still lively. The confrontation has the consequence of increasingly strong tightness between, on the one hand, the executive and legislative powers and, on the other, the judicial power.
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