With the cry of ‘Aqui terra segurana: voules mangea de la blea mancou dou betoun’ (Here is safe land: you want to eat wheat, not concrete), the anti-O.I.N. collective continues its campaign of opposition to the Nice-Métropole project;
On Saturday and Sunday, activists will meet at the corner of Chemin des Arboras and Avenue Sainte Marguerite to begin restoring cultivation to the most fertile lands in Europe, which could ensure food sovereignty for the citizens of our territory.
115 families are about to be expropriated for the construction of a 40-meter wide highway that will make way for “all road” infrastructure and, “as it stands,” does not include provisions for a tramway or bus lane, with the sole purpose of filling a Grand Stadium for we know not what “sporting” event and hundreds of luxury shops.
Elderly people are losing everything they had, seeing their entire lives destroyed in the name of “public utility,” a project classification that is illegal, to begin with. These individuals received their expropriation notices in a completely cavalier manner and are under constant pressure from authorities who see no further than the ends of their wallets.
These people have some of the most fertile lands in Europe that they wish to return to cultivation. Of course, the metropolitan authorities have always made them believe that young farmers are just a myth and that it’s better for them to sell.
The collective “O.I.N. Plaine du Var: for a citizen debate” has decided to support the initiative proposed by the Citizen Movement of the Pays Niçois to cultivate these lands again and prove to the Eastropole notables that there are indeed 150 young farmers who currently want to settle on the Plaine du Var and who have always been denied access to the lands by the former NCA, or they have been highlighted for supposed “organic” in school canteens because it makes a nice article in the press for Mr. Estrosi.
