FC Nantes announced Thursday that it had seized the administrative court in January to claim about 12 million euros in damages from Nantes Métropole after the abandonment a year earlier of its private stadium project.
The YelloPark project provided for the construction at a cost of 200 million euros of a private stadium with 40,000 seats, which was to be ready to host the matches scheduled in Nantes during the Rugby World Cup in 2023. The project had raised a wind of criticism, firstly on a vast real estate component, then on the fate reserved for the emblematic and still valiant Beaujoire stadium (37,000 seats, inaugurated in 1984).
"Bad pretext"
After supporting the project and voting at the end of 2018 for the sale of nine hectares of land, the metropolis backed down in February 2019, citing the announcement of the opening of an investigation by the national financial prosecutor's office for tax fraud targeting the president of FC Nantes, Waldemar Kita.
"No bad pretext can come to compromise the years of preliminary studies, the 10 million investments already committed, the resolutions passed, the strong commitments made in favor of a project intended for future generations", had then replied the club . FC Nantes is now claiming compensation from the city for the sums and efforts invested.
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