What message do you address to the Grabellois at the start of the year?

I tell them to remain optimistic, to stay in solidarity and to help each other.If we maintain a strong mutual aid network in Grabels, I am convinced that we will come out reinforced from the crisis.

Despite the situation, will 2022 be a year of projects?

During this third term, I was committed to a real challenge in relation to climate change.So I created a citizen council for the ecological transition which brings together around forty people.

The ecological transition dominates my projects whose thermal renovation of the Joseph-Delteil school, the realization of an atlas of municipal biodiversity, the development of cycle paths ... Grabels remains the green lung of the metropolis, a kind of oasis ofgarrigues that I want to preserve.It's a strong choice.

You want to preserve the environment but you launch a ZAC from 850 housing units ...

The ZAC de Gimel is one of the 4 km2 to urbanize.Our goal is to make a real eco -neighborhood around the preservation of three -quarters of the park, the construction of positive energy buildings, the absence of vehicles ... Thanks to this development, we will create the cultural space, called the tilede Massane and articulated around a place dedicated to writing and writers, a village and show room, a place dedicated to the poet Joseph Delteil, the Utopia cinema…

During this year 2022, the studies and the ZAC file will be made before the first deliveries in 2025 of part of the dwellings and the Massane Tuilerie.

Was Grabels touched by the floods in 2014?Where is the file?

In partnership with the metropolis, we will make a big investment around Rieumassel, head of the flood of 192 houses in October 2014.Today, the land is purchased and the prefecture must launch the public inquiry in March.This work, carried out as part of the flood prevention action program, should start at the end of 2022 for delivery in early 2024.In 2014, I had made the commitment to the population that everything would be finished in October 2024.I'm still in the nails.

What about the Grabels castle?

Property of the city, I would like to make it a third place around cultural, associative, economic activities ... But, it is the population that will decide during a debate launched at the end of the year.

Have you chosen to invest in video protection?

Indeed, but it is not alpha and omega.It must be a means of investigation.We will put it in place in stages with six cameras placed in the entrances and city exits.In 2022, we will carry out the urban supervision center and the first camera will be laid in 2023.

Let's go back to the link, a subject that is close to your heart?

I stretched my hand to M.Mesquida and he hits me on my fingers.For 10 years, I say we have been around a table and discuss an alternative to this destructive route in our town.Without any response.I was shocked that the only person attacked during the wishes of M.Mesquida to the press or the mayor of Grabels.He must find his composure and restraint, necessary for his function.

That said, the prefecture will organize a consultation of the population from January 30 to March 4 on the report of the regional mission of environmental authorities.It is very favorable to us and shows all the faults of the link.Following this consultation, the Council of State gave itself until June 30 to decide on our appeal.Until June 30, the declaration of public utility (DUP) of the link can still be canceled.

You multiply the appeals.What cost did they have for the city?

Since 2011, the various appeals have cost a sum of around € 20,000, including € 12,000 for the two deposited from the Council of State.

Political news is rich.How do you look at the presidential elections?

I have already given my signature to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which will not surprise anyone.Today, he is the best placed left candidate.

Do you want to play a role in the legislative elections?

I am a loyal boy.I will support the candidates of France Insoumise.I prefer to highlight young people but if I am asked to play a role, and, if my team judges that it is useful, I will play it.