Essonne: long abandoned to drug dealing and prostitution, the Saint-Eutrope forest will be reborn

2023-09-25 07:07:30

“The woods of Saint-Eutrope will be open to walkers,” was the headline in Le Parisien in 2001. After finally more than twenty years of waiting, things are finally moving forward. On September 11, construction equipment appeared a few steps from one of the entrances, in Bondoufle (Essonne). And got to work. A sign, hung on the fence blocking access to any vehicle, announces the “metamorphosis” of this 234 ha forest, located in the communes of Fleury-Mérogis, Ris-Orangis and Bondoufle. Behind, backhoe loaders destroy the parking lot which until 1996 accommodated racegoers from the racecourse located right next door. ” Finally ! », breathes one of the site guards.