The site, July 9, 2019 - V. Hache / AFP

“The number of people on the site goes from 300 journeymen or workers to forty, mainly for the safety of the site, and it will be further reduced by the weekend. "The historic work which should allow Monaco to gain six hectares on the Mediterranean is considerably slowed but not stopped during the health crisis of Covid-19, said a subcontractor on Thursday.

The platform must be delivered at the end of 2020. Areas are already ready for the foundations of the five buildings and fourteen villas which must be built by 2025 and sold at 100,000 euros per m2. Launched in 2015, this project, for a total amount of 2 billion euros, is without equivalent due to its seismic and environmental constraints and its depth, at -50 m.

A start of controversy erupted on social networks

"We don't close construction sites like a closet door," Patrice Pastor, deputy president of the Monegasque company JB Pastor & Fils, who is part of the development company with a dozen other investors, tells Nice-Morning. . The site "will remain open, and maritime and land activities will be limited and will be the subject of a monitoring system in perfect adequacy with the health recommendations that we take very seriously," he said.

The beginning of controversy erupted on social networks. Residents complaining about the din of machines from different construction sites, while the containment measures forced the cessation of all activity, including casinos.

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