Tending her rows of courgettes, leeks and potatoes, Cécile Coquel, a telecoms worker and guerilla gardener, stood firm despite local authorities’ recent warning that everything must be ripped up and the field vacated.
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| A demonstration against EuropaCity in Gonesse, north of Paris. |
“These are the vegetables of the resistance!” she proclaimed. “We’ll fight to save this land.”
The patchwork of highly fertile fields 15km (9 miles) from Notre Dame cathedral, as the crow flies, is the closest remaining farmland to northern Paris, nudging up against some of the most deprived towns on the French capital’s outskirts.
But it has become a political and environmental battlefield as the state and private investors prepare to concrete over around 280 hectares of it. They plan to create a business park and a vast €3bn (£2.6bn) theme park, leisure and tourism complex called EuropaCity.
Read the story from The Guardian by Angelique Chrisafis - “'Dubai in Paris': French climate protesters fight plans for €3bn theme park.”
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