Weekend against the A69: a "turboteuf" to "oppose the construction site"

Centuries-old trees and protected species, Roman bluebells, and a pair of turtledoves... The garden of Scopont Castle, an imposing 15th-century building in the Tarn region, is a haven of biodiversity. It is in this emblematic setting of the environmental and heritage damage caused by the nearby A69 that thousands of opponents of the highway construction site between Toulouse and Castres have decided to gather from Friday, July 4 to Sunday, July 6. For the owner of the site, Bernard d'Ingrando, it was "important" to support the event. "It will be festive and recreational," promises the sixty-year-old, who is excited at the idea of ​​showing off his estate.

This long-planned mobilization was intended to celebrate the unexpected victory obtained in February , when the Toulouse administrative court declared this 53 km stretch of asphalt illegal. Except that in the meantime, the protest has suffered several legal and legislative setbacks. In May, the administrative court of appeal of the Haute-Garonne prefecture, seized by the State, authorized the concessionaire