Bordeaux (AFP)
The administrative court of Bordeaux on Wednesday suspended the municipal deliberation of a village in the Dordogne, Saint-Capraise-de-Lalinde, which refused the installation of controversial electricity meters Linky, according to a prescription consulted by AFP.
The prefecture had summoned (emergency procedure) the municipality before the administrative justice to suspend a deliberation last July 3 in which the latter refused the next replacement of electricity meters by Linky models throughout the municipality.
For four years, Saint-Capraise-de-Lalinde, village of 555 inhabitants near Bergerac, is at war with Enedis, EDF subsidiary in charge of the deployment of the Linky meters. The town had also declared territory "out-Linky" taking a deliberation in 2015 to refuse their facilities.
"We will now enter a kind of legal arm-de-fer because we will continue to argue this deliberation in 2015," said the mayor PCF-FDG Laurent Péréa.
"The battle continues," he promised, while saying "leave his door open to Enedis and the prefecture to accept mediation."
The prefecture argued in particular that the city council could not "take decisions concerning (...) the decommissioning of the counters when the municipality does not" owner ", according to the order of the judge of interim relief.
The town hall, which reserves the right to appeal, has also been assigned by Enedis. The date of the hearing is not yet known.
Ten interlocutory proceedings were held in France, resulting in the suspension of deliberations pending a judgment on the merits.
Linky smart meters are causing some privacy and health concerns because of the electromagnetic waves they emit, which Linky refutes.
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