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Opponents of the A69 demonstrate in Toulouse

#HAUTE-GARONNE Between 1 500 and 3 000 people demonstrated on Sunday in the streets of Toulouse, against the construction of the A69, 53  km to connect Castres and the pink city. At the call of the GNSA, Greenpeace, the La Voie est Libre collective, Extinction Rébellion and several left-wing or environmentalist parties, they marched in the calm of Allées Jean-Jaurès to the courthouse . "This highway will never happen", said the demonstrators at the end of the rally around 5 p.m. Numerous legal actions have been filed since the start of construction in March 2023. Opponents of the route denounce attacks on the environment in particular.

L’Aubrac invests in its water resources

#LOZERE /AVEYRON Guillaume Choisy, director of the Adour-Garonne Water Agency, recently traveled to the village of ;rsquo;Aubrac to mark the start of an action program specifically intended to preserve the wetlands of the causse and to support the adaptation of livestock farming to climate change. "We know that this resource is being undermined. This requires us to invest to manage water differently. Wetlands and grazed meadows store the most water, in quantity and quality. Without meadows at the top, we will be unable to ensure quality water at the bottom. To preserve water, we must preserve wetlands and preserve grazing, support breeders, put in place watering solutions for herds without resorting to public drinking water networks. , insisted Guillaume Choisy. On this occasion, he signed a territorial wetlands contract ensuring 5 M€ aid over five years.

Overloaded police officers

#NIMES "The police are out of breath", estimates Guillaume Teyssandier, the departmental delegate of Unsa police union in Gard. "We see that the delinquents are younger and younger and are ready to do anything to defend their territory", underlines the Gardois, who points to a lack of staff in certain investigation and public highway services. "Today the UNSA police is requesting thirty police officers for reinforcement across the entire department in the public security, judicial police, territorial intelligence sectors. But above all, we ask that Nîmes be classified as a difficult sector like the city of Marseille, explains the trade unionist, for whom Nîmes "becomes the suburbs& ;quot; from the Phocaean city.

The number of the day: 924

#PEZENAS This is a world record that is unusual to say the least. 924 residents of Pézenas wore a striped sailor top at the same time and in the same place on Saturday. The people of Piscénois can be proud, because they thus regain the title “pique” by the Bretons of Roscoff, April 6. The gathering took place on Place Gambetta in the Hérault commune, as part of the Printival festival, which pays tribute to singer Boby Lapointe.

Swim across the city

#SETE There were nearly 250 of them, Sunday morning, jumping into the water in the canals of the unique island. "What a pleasure to discover Sète in this way", appreciated these two licensees from Toulouse Métropole Palmes, one of the 47 registered clubs in this 53rd edition contested under a warming sun. "We have the wetsuits, but we can tell that the water is cold…" Four official distances (950 m, 2,000 m, 3,000 m, 6,000 m, 3 hours) were offered for this urban swim at open sky, which gave a foretaste of the Olympics in this year of the passage of the flame.

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