The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal was clear on Thursday: it believes that the training pool for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games would be an "attack" on biodiversity.

It therefore invalidated the local urban plan which made it possible to destroy part of the allotments of Aubervilliers to establish it.

“It is enjoined to the president of the public territorial establishment Plaine commune to initiate the procedure of modification of the local plan of intermunicipal urbanism in that it classifies in urban zone part of the western fringe of the gardens of the Virtues”, the name of these centenary gardens in Seine-Saint-Denis, decided the court in its judgment consulted by AFP.

The future metro station questioned

The intercommunality, led by the mayor (PS) of Saint-Denis Mathieu Hanotin, has four months to propose a new version, she specified.

The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal considers that "the urbanization of the western fringe of the Jardins des Vertus", for the swimming pool but also a future metro station, "will also undermine the preservation of a core of primary biodiversity and will increase the existing ecological discontinuities”.

In its judgment, this competent body in matters of litigation around the Olympic projects recalled that the contested document presented “inconsistencies” with its own obligations, in particular environmental.

The future aquatic center has a solarium, which must be built on approximately 4,000 m2 of food plots.

“Illegitimate project, illegal project”

“There is no immediate consequence on the question of the work, the building permit remains valid.

It does not call into question the project, ”reacted Mathieu Hanotin, assuring that Plaine commune would comply.

Asked, the city of Aubervilliers declared that it did not want to react “at this stage”.

“We always said the project was illegitimate, now it's illegal.

For the first time justice is giving us reason by telling them "you do not have the right to do what you have done", reacted Ziad Maalouf, one of the gardeners at the origin of the request.

Strong resistances

A legal battle has started around the project.

The opponents, who consider it against the current of the ecological emergency, also attacked the building permit and occupied the premises for four months in 2021.

Briefly suspended by court order, the work was finally able to continue.

This did not prevent activists on February 2 from clinging to a concrete mixer until the intervention of the police.

Worth 33 million euros, a third of which is financed by Solideo (the company responsible for delivering the works for the 2024 Olympics), the aquatic center must serve as a training pool for swimmers during the Olympics, before to be accessible to residents.

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