A retired couple, whose property adjoins the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, announced on Wednesday that it had appealed to the Nantes administrative court to ask the State for 382,000 euros following repeated offenses that pushed them to leave the premises.
A property near a departmental road in the ZAD
"After about thirty complaints filed for damage, vandalism, looting, burglaries, squats, robberies, in our house located on the edge of the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, we decided to attack the State for fault, breach of equality before public charges, prejudice, loss of enjoyment, moral damage, material damage ", said in a statement Guy Lamisse, the owner.
The retired couple, now residing in Nantes, has an old family farm consisting of two houses, located in a place called Vigneux-de-Bretagne, a neighboring town of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. The property is close to a departmental road included in the perimeter of the "area to be defended" on which have settled opponents of the Nantes-Atlantique airport transfer project.
"A nightmare" since 2010
"Despite the abandonment of the airport construction project, the area has not been liberated so well (they) remain daily victims of delinquency, vandalism or intimidation," said Jean -Marc Le Masson, their lawyer, in the application addressed to the administrative court.
The Lamisse spouses have been living through a "nightmare" since 2010, which forced them to "condemn access to their own homes": they only go there to "monitor the premises and avoid their degradation", he said. added. In 2016, "a petition of 1,628 signatures of local residents denouncing the abuses of the zadistes" had been handed to the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique, said Guy Lamisse, formerly spokesman of the Collective of residents of the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des -Landes.