The court said no. The administrative court of Besançon (Doubs) canceled, in a judgment rendered this Thursday, the building permit and the environmental authorization granted to a warehouse project of 76,000 m² for Amazon, in Fontaine, in the Territoire-de- Belfort. The court had been seized by the environmental associations Les Amis de la Terre and France Nature Environnement, which contested the location of this building 360 meters long and 175 meters wide, and two courtyards for trucks.
The court justifies its decision by the fact that the file presented to request the building permit and the environmental authorization did not contain “any compensation measure for the disappearance of the wetland impacted by the project”.
A badly redacted name
The file was carried by the company Vailog France, of the Segro group. But according to the Franche-Comté investigative media Factual.info, Vailog France was leading the authorization request process on behalf of Amazon, whose name had been badly redacted on a building permit document. Solicited, the leaders of Vailog France, Éric Véron and Marco Simonetti, have not yet reacted to the court’s decision.
In the same “Aéropoarc Concerted Development Zone (ZAC)” in the town of Fontaine, in the urban area of Belfort, another Amazon logistics platform of 10,000 m² has already been created. This base, known as “the last kilometer”, circulates “400 van-style vehicles on the roads of the Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté”, explains the mayor of Fontaine, Pierre Fietier. “They are supplied by trucks that come at night to bring the parcels. »