Settled in the Chambaran forest (Isère), Zadists have been protesting for many years against the plan to open a Center Parcs in Roybon. - XAVIER VILA / SIPA

Freshly stationed, Barbara Pompili was already able to rejoice this Thursday of the abandonment of a controversial project. The new Minister of the Ecological Transition thus qualified as "absurdity" in environmental matters the Center Parcs estate in Roybon (Isère), which will ultimately not see the light of day, after the announcement of the Pierre et Vacances group on Wednesday.

"I was a long time opponent of this project because it is a project of the old period, where we did not care what we did to nature," said Barbara Pompili on France Info, emphasizing the major deforestation planned in a wetland.

"It was not at all thought to protect nature"

"It's crazy anyway," continued the minister. It is supposed to be a vacation to be close to nature and it was not at all thought to protect nature. We are facing an absurdity, and in addition, there had been a clear lack of consultation upstream. What is happening there shows that we have moved on to something else. "

Blocked by multiple appeals and endless legal proceedings since its launch in 2007, in addition to land occupied by zadists, this domain project with a thousand cottages, shops and restaurants around an aquatic area, the whole amounted to 390 million euros, is now ancient history.

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