Demonstration in Paris on February 27, 2021, to oppose the creation of a Grand Paris metro station, in Gonesse, in Val-d'Oise.

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Several hundred people gathered this Saturday in Paris to oppose the creation of a Grand Paris metro station "in the middle of the fields" in Val-d'Oise, five days after the evacuation of " area to be defended ”of the Triangle de Gonesse.

On Place Stalingrad (19th arrondissement of Paris), many left-wing political figures and environmentalists have supported the Collectif pour le Triangle de Gonesse (CPTG).

The “Gare de Gonesse, leave concrete” signs mingled with LFI, EELV and Front de Gauche flags.

“Let's protect the lands of Gonesse,” said Clémentine Autain, LFI MP, during the rally.

"We need fertile land in Ile-de-France"

“We project into our imaginations shopping centers that we no longer need.

We need fertile land in Ile-de-France, because only 2% of the products we eat come from this region, ”added the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis.

According to Clémentine Autain, it is "a political battle" which must oppose that of the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse (Libres!), Which is "a liberal productivist right which signs the Paris agreements and destroyed land ”.

For Senator EELV Esther Benbassa, “the station lost in the middle of the fields is not useful to the inhabitants.

"The challenge is to put money into daily transport, which is the RER B and D", explained Carlos Bilongo, activist and professor of economics.

"The fight is not over"

During the rally, the citizens who occupied the ZAD de Gonesse for 17 days were applauded.

"It was a moment of sharing, the Triangle de Gonesse remains to be defended", testified moved, one of them.

"We fear that the government will decide for an in-between situation, which is to keep fields and a station, which is not compatible to set up the Carma project" of an agricultural cooperative, s' is worried Bernard Loup, president of the CPTG.

"Legal proceedings are underway, the fight is not over, the Triangle de Gonesse is still there", concluded the activist.

Line 17 is to connect Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) to Roissy-CDG airport in 2030, passing through the Triangle de Gonesse, where it was initially intended to serve the Europacity shopping and leisure mega-complex.

But since Emmanuel Macron announced in November 2019 the abandonment of this flagship project, the fate of these 280 hectares of agricultural land, strategically located about fifteen kilometers north of Paris, remains uncertain.

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