Thursday, February 3, 2011

Antennas: Parents' appeal rejected in Lyon

The twenty or parents of students who were assigned Lyon appealed the mobile operator Bouygues Telecom for "disturbing the neighborhood" so that it belies a relay antenna installed near the school for their children, have been unsuccessful their application, Thursday, Feb. 3. Grouped in the "Rally for schools without electromagnetic pollution", the parents of a school of the 5th arrondissement of Lyon challenged a decision by September 15, 2009 the Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI) in Lyon.

The latter believed that the "neighborhood disorder" was not found and there was no need to apply the "precautionary principle". For nearly four years, they demanded the dismantling or moving the antenna, installed in 1999 at 30 meters from the playground. The Court of Appeal of Lyon "notes that the existence of a health risk is not proven in the state of scientific knowledge," he told Agence France-Presse, the advocate of Bouygues Telecom, Mr.

Louis of Cars. "It validated the analysis of the first judges and looked so since factual technical elements would have to question this analysis and she replied in the negative, saying that since the government has confirmed the absence of risk for people close to base stations, "he added.

FAMILIES "disappointed" In a statement, the parents said they were "extremely disappointed" by the ruling. "We remain confident that the installation of antennas always strongest near schools, places far more sensitive and housing, will be less and less tolerated by the people while there are studies based on scientific criteria rigorous alert public opinion ", they said.

Counsel for the operator, the decision "reflects the state of the law." "Even if there was a negative decision, two years ago, by the Court of Appeal of Versailles, 90% of judges' decisions are in the same direction," he said. On February 4, 2009, the Court of Appeal of Versailles was sentenced Bouygues Telecom to dismantle an antenna in the town of Tassin-la-Demi-lune, in Lyon.

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