After the wrath of Philippe Saurel (various left), the Council of State justified his choice, this Sunday, on the establishment of the new administrative court of appeal in Toulouse. The institution puts forward financial and delay reasons to explain its decision to create the administrative court of appeal of Occitanie in Toulouse rather than in Montpellier.
"The studies prior to the choice between the two sites of Montpellier and Toulouse", commissioned by the Council of State, "highlighted the forecast costs of the works and a significantly shorter completion time in Toulouse compared to Montpellier", replied the highest administrative court, in a statement, said AFP.
"The Council of State distinguished the cost of works (...) and the amount of land"
The Montpellier site requires "on the one hand, the demolition of buildings and the construction of a new building and, on the other hand, the rehabilitation of an existing building, while the Toulouse site will only be affected by a rehabilitation ", Continues the Council of State.
"In the proposal for the Toulouse site which he submitted to the Minister of Justice [Nicole Belloubet] last summer, the Council of State distinguished between the cost of the works, which corresponds to a real expense at the charge of the State, and the amount of land, which does not constitute a real cost for the State "since the two sites belong to it, he underlines.
"It is suspicious"
The mayor of Montpellier did not digest that the new administrative court of appeal of Occitanie is established in Toulouse rather than in his city, which had candidate. Saturday, Philippe Saurel said he intended to file a complaint against the Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, for "illegal taking of interest". “The design office responsible for evaluating the Montpellier and Toulouse sites is located in Blagnac. Its main client is the city, "railed the elected official, also denouncing alleged family and political connections of the minister with Toulouse [Nicole Belloubet was assistant to the mayor]. "A minister has no right to intervene in matters where he has interests," said Gilles Gauer, the lawyer for the city of Montpellier.
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Philippe Saurel also regretted that the unveiling of the LREM investitures at municipal level, as in Toulouse, where the outgoing mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc accepted it, had agreed with the choice of location. "This is suspicious (…) when we know that the volume handled by Montpellier is 10 to 12,000 cases per year against 6,000 in Toulouse," said the elected official. Finally, the city disputes the argument that the project presented by Montpellier required greater financial investment.
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