How the Gonesse Triangle Became a Zone to Defend

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine — 2023-04-28T05:00:00Z

Despite the cancellation in late 2019 of the EuropaCity project - a giant shopping mall and entertainment complex on the outskirts of Paris — the government's decision to build a new train station in the middle of farmland has brought opposition groups to occupy the land and form a new “zone to defend”: the ZAD of the Gonesse Triangle.
On Sunday, February 7, 2021, just under a hundred people—comprising members of the Collectif pour le Triangle de Gonesse (Collective for the Gonesse Triangle;

- Debates / Gonesse, écologie, Île-de-France, mobilisation, zone à défendre, urbanisation

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How the Gonesse Triangle Became a Zone to Defend