Our Meeting Against The Site
The meeting
12 July 2004 20-30hrs Our meeting was arranged for the evening of the 12th of July at
20-30hrs.
Orange were asked to attend but declined the offer (they said they have arranged at
meeting for 15th July at 14.30hr when everyone was at work) "they really know how to
make it easy everyone"
Daniel Oberhausen a physician and Nicole Bonnafous the co-ordinator of the PRIARTEM (a group against the location of masts near habitation) were our speakers.
Leaflets were printed and distributed to every house in and around the village. Large
posters were placed in the village shops and on the trees.(the Maire told us they were his
trees and we were not allowed to pin on his trees, we did it any way)
On the evening of the meeting around 90-100 people attended. Daniel and Nicole explained
all of the various dangers and health risks.
After the speeches people were invited to ask questions.
There was a good response from the audience and they had many questions to ask, as the audience got more confident they started to direct their questions towards the Maire who was sitting on the front row. His wife at the back of the hall with a large male friend. She was taking notes and spent most of the evening giggling at what was said, like an adolescent school girl.
One female villager said she would have to move if the Antenna was erected at this site she would have to move as she suffers from a form of tinnitus which is aggravated by Mobile phone Antennas. This has been proven to cause her problems as she had to move before to get away from an Antenna that was close to her home.
When the Maire began to speak to the audience he got a hostile reception. He was heckled at and he then got extremely angry and found it impossible to justify his decision about the siting of the Antenna. He said after a lot of loud protesting "I will try to find another site".
Orange Meeting
15th July 2004 14-30hrs
As a small gathering of about 25-30 people at this meeting of which 10-15 people were directly connected with the Maire.
The representative from Orange side step any question which came from the audience that may give reasons for not having the Antenna so close to the houses of the village. When he was asked about specific cases in Europe and in particular England he said they were not true and all was lies. When we gave him a copy of a press cutting from an English national paper showing headlines that the Deputy Prime Minister was taking Orange to the Appeal Court he said "that was not true and even if it was they have different exposure rules in the UK" When asked who has the safer limits he said nothing and just carried on with his written speech of bull shit about how we are all being radiated by, television, radio, micro waves ect, in other words one more radiation source would not make much difference
He said Orange had picked the site not the Maire and it could not be altered by the Maire as he had no power to do so. This is not the case as there has been a new court ruling that if the Maire does not want the Antenna on a particular site he can have it removed. Please read press cutting sorry it is in French
When we gave him this press cutting it stopped him in his tracks, he said "this was news to him and he had not been told of this" this is good for someone who is responsible for public debate.
We are now waiting for the next site visit, we are keeping up the pressure on Orange and of course the Maire