The Paris administrative court of appeal on Monday suspended the building permit for a swimming pool in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) intended to serve as a training basin for the Paris-2024 Olympic Games and which involves the destruction of allotment gardens.
"The execution of this ordinance, which suspends the contested building permit, necessarily implies, as the applicants rightly claim, that the work already undertaken be immediately terminated", it is stated in the judgment from the courtyard.
There are "serious doubts about the legality" of this permit, filed irregularly by Karine Franclet, the UDI mayor of Aubervilliers, and issued without respecting certain rules in terms of town planning, in particular the compensation for felled trees, specifies the decision.
300 demonstrators marched in Aubervilliers
During the hearing last Wednesday, the judge was puzzled about this project amounting to 33 million euros, of which about a third must be financed by Solideo, the company responsible for delivering the works for the Olympics -2024.
Three gardeners and two associations for the protection of the environment are at the initiative of this emergency procedure, while the plots affected by the work have already been destroyed.
The court's decision comes a fortnight after the evacuation of environmental activists who had occupied the gardens for four months.
On Saturday, about 300 people marched in Aubervilliers to denounce this project, which they believe is contrary to the ecological emergency.
They are mainly aimed at the solarium which should accompany the aquatic center and emerge instead of trees and vegetable gardens.
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