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Champ-de-Mars: the Town Hall takes legal action to defend a project it says it abandoned!
On Thursday 19 October, three days ago, the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal held a hearing on an application by several associations[[France Nature Environnement, SOS Paris, Les Amis du Champ-de-Mars and Sites et Monuments (Société pour la Protection des Paysages et de l’esthétique de la France)]. They are demanding that the City of Paris withdraw the building permit for "offices for the Eiffel Tower operating company", "the creation of two pavilions/shops" and the "cutting down of 20 trees" in exchange for the planting of 42 others.
After reading this introduction, the reader may well wonder. Emmanuel Grégoire, the first deputy mayor of Paris, in an interview with the JDD confirmed by a tweet published on 2 October 2022, in fact unambiguously announced his decision to abandon the…
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