The administrative court of Caen rejected an appeal against the temporary closure of the emergency room in Valognes. But the opponents of this project do not intend to stop there.
Justice has decided! According to the daily West France, the administrative court of Caen (Lower Normandy) dismissed this Friday five communes of the Manche and the Citizen’s Association for the defense of the Cotentin public hospital. The emergencies of the public hospital of Valognes, closed since August 6, will not reopen. But the opponents of this closure (provisional according to the Minister of Health), do not intend to stop there. After bringing together 3,000 demonstrators at the end of August in the streets of Valognes (Manche), this time they are preparing punch actions.
A blockage of the national 13
Contacted by Why actor, Rémi Besselièvre, president of the Association for the defense of the Cotentin Public Hospital and the Promotion of Health, confides: “Our next actions will be decided on Thursday, September 17 during our General Assembly. What I can tell you is that they will be more visible and audible than the previous ones. Everything is on the table. For example, we are considering a snail operation on the national road 13 (1) by blocking traffic towards Caen ”.
The association is even ready to go further, since Rémi Besselièvre adds: “The other possibility is to ask the elected representatives of the municipalities concerned to block all future municipal councils”. This activist is also considering demonstrations of force in front of the ARS Basse-Normandie, “like going in front of their headquarters to burn tires or hay,” he concludes.
21,000 signatures collected
To avoid this scenario, everything depends on a meeting with the ARS Basse-Normandie that the association claims before its GA on Thursday. If she obtains it, she will also take the opportunity to deposit the 21,000 signatures that she has collected as part of a petition for the reopening of the Valognes emergency room. Proof for Rémi Besselièvre that he is not alone in his fight.
To understand, since August 6, date of closure of the service, the 60,000 inhabitants must indeed go if necessary to the emergency room in Cherbourg (Manche), 40 minutes by car from the Valognes site, which belongs to the Hospital Center. public from Cotentin (Lower Normandy).
(1) The national road 13 or RN 13 is one of the main national roads in France radiating from Paris. It is, with the national 14 and 15, one of the three main axes which connect Paris to Normandy.
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