In Ralliement square, demonstrations against the airport project are "clear to take off"

The construction of a new airport is not the gift some Angers inhabitants wish to get for Christmas. Dozens of them were gathered in the middle of the mobile chalets traditionnaly set up in Ralliement square every year. The place, where thousands of people are wandering every day during December throughout the paths between chalets, was the ideal location (and the most appropriate day, opening of the Christmas village) to be heard by Angers opinion.

They were heard, incidentally, by the mayor, Frédéric Beatse,  there by chance and apparently not delighted by the scene. The passengers of the trolley were not pleased to be slowed while passer-by didn't paid much attention to the activists. The demonstrators have deployed several banners against the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project and handed out leaflets and petitions demanding the abandonment of the scheme.  Their gathering has also interrupted the trolley traffic and that very visible weakness of the Angers new transportation mode is not close to be forgotten... 

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Moreover, since its completion, the Ralliement square has become the "theatre" of numerous demons-trations. It is not probably a function that designers of the place had foreseen. This is not the first time demonstrations take place in Angers against the airport project officially supported by Angers city which sees in that facility an essential way of access to the Western part of France whose that town is member. The demonstrators criticize the damages to environment the project will cause and its uselessness given the Nantes Atlantique airport is not yet overloaded by fret and passengers traffic.