It is a harmless gesture for many: airing their house, and listening. "So, I open the window and I hear absolutely nothing except the sound of the wind," savored Denis. Since the start of confinement linked to the coronavirus, and the drastic drop in the number of links, this resident of Cormeilles-en-Parisis has benefited from a very unusual calm under one of the two air corridors of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport .
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"This situation is completely new, it existed in 1974", recalls Denis, who usually sees "800 planes a day" pass over his house. And for this member of an association opposed to the expansion of the airport, this calm is unexpected: "This little dramatic virus instantly stopped the airport and night flights where we did not arrive, for decades. "
The happiness of a simple garden chair
Since the confinement was put in place, the few planes still in transit have passed to the other side. Tens of thousands of people discover the happiness of a garden chair. Like Claude, guitar in hand: "Ah ... Never in my life would I have thought I could play in my garden without the passage of an airplane, just listening to the sound of the wind. It's great, I'm very happy. " In the neighborhood we only dream of one thing: to be confined in these conditions as long as possible.