A landslide on the Beynac road, January 28, 2021. -

Dordogne department

  • The Dordogne Department is highlighting the landslides of the Beynac cliffs to defend the road diversion project for the medieval village.

  • However, it has been challenged by the courts and the site must be rehabilitated.

  • The president of the departmental council calls on the President of the Republic to restart the site in the name of the safety of road users and the general interest.

Could the safety argument weigh in favor of the Beynac road diversion?

On January 28, 2021, a landslide occurred on the departmental road crossing this small medieval Perigord village for which the Department wants a road deviation, stopped by the courts.

The president of the Dordogne departmental council Germinal Peiro (PS) catches the ball in flight.

He stands in his position despite the injunction, known in the spring of 2019, to restore the site of the construction site and brandishes this Tuesday the risk of landslide through a study carried out by the Géolithe cabinet to defend its project again.

The study covers three sectors, including that of the cliffs of Beynac and for him: "the deviation would reduce traffic by 70% in these three places which are dangerous".

“As early as 2017, studies showed the need to install fences, to protect these sectors, retorts Théophile Pardo, from the association defending the general interest in Dordogne.

This departmental road will always exist, it must be secured!

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The demolition will not take place for two years

Demolition at the site of the deviation has not started.

"We never said that we would not respect the decision but we are contesting it, assures Germinal Peiro.

Steps have been taken to carry out technical and environmental studies, but we have a schedule which means that work will begin in two years ”.

A period of time in which he hopes his project will restart.

He ensures nurturing a "very serious hope", taking the example of the deviation of Taillan Médoc, in the Gironde.

"After four years of work interruption, the file was resumed because of safety problems," he points out.

And even though all legal remedies have been exhausted, he does not give up.

“The judicial time has come to an end, today a political era begins.

The file is in the hands of the President and the Prime Minister, I ask them to find their senses.

Otherwise nothing will be done in this country because there are protected species everywhere.

The elected representative sees it as a national issue, for all the projects carried out by the communities.

"It's a fixed idea," exasperates his opponent Théophile Pardo.

He wrote twice to Emmanuel Macron, without getting an answer… ”

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