Bordeaux: The new mayor EELV wants to remove the Christmas tree, "a dead tree", from Place Pey-Berland
TRADITION Pierre Hurmic says he no longer wants "dead trees in town squares" ... A petition is launched this Friday for the maintenance of the Christmas tree in Bordeaux
By: Mickaël Bosredon
By: Mickaël Bosredon
The traditional Christmas tree at Place Pey-Berland in Bordeaux - M.Bosredon / 20 Minutes
- Mayor EELV of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic announced Thursday that he no longer wanted the traditional
- He explains that he no longer wants to "put dead trees in town squares."
- The opposition reacted strongly, speaking of "a violation of the traditions and the image of Bordeaux".
The back-to-school surprise. Thursday, during a press conference, the new EELV mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic, slipped through a whole battery of measures , that he would remove the traditional Christmas tree from Place Pey-Berland. “We will not put dead trees in the city squares and in particular the Pey-Berland square. I keep the memory of this dead tree that we brought in every year… This is not at all our conception of revegetation ”, justified the green mayor of Bordeaux.
The Christmas tree at Place Pey Berland will be replaced by live shows. #BXlive #Bordeaux
- Bordeaux (@Bordeaux) September 10, 2020 A decision that did not take long to react in the political sphere and beyond, and not only in Bordeaux. Opponent MoDem Fabien Robert , and former first deputy mayor, slipped on Twitter a “Bordeaux, sad city”.
Bordeaux, sad city ... https://t.co/0UVMrqIi9O
- Fabien ROBERT (@fabienrobert) September 10, 2020 For Hauts-de-France President Xavier Bertrand, “the Christmas tree like the Tour de France are traditions that unite us”. Obviously reference to another announcement which caused controversy this week, when the new EELV mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet criticized the Tour de France , an event "macho" and "not eco-responsible. "
Call me old world if you want, but the Christmas tree, @LeTour de France and all those traditions that unite us will always be the glue of a society. #Bordeaux #Lyon https://t.co/bR6y53dVrG
- Xavier Bertrand (@xavierbertrand) September 11, 2020 🎄 The mayor @EELV of #Bordeaux @PierreHurmic announces the removal of the Christmas tree from Place pey-Berland: “We will not put dead trees in the town squares”.
He adds: “at the end of 2020, we will adopt the tree rights charter!”
#GeorgeOrwell # 1984 pic.twitter.com/0UYl1dNKTT
- Jérôme Godefroy (@jeromegodefroy) September 10, 2020 The Christmas tree -this “gadget”, it seems, removed from the Place de l'Hotel-de-Ville in Bordeaux: confirmation that the Greens have lived up to now among themselves, in sect.
Pierre Hurmic said he was flabbergasted by the reactions his decision provoked.
We have the right to be dumbfounded that he is dumbfounded.
- D. de Montvalon (@ demontvalon1) September 11, 2020 In Bordeaux we remove the Christmas tree, in Lyon we hate #TourdeFrance ... or when ideology and stupidity want to put an end to popular traditions.This political ecology has nothing to do with the preservation of the environment and the planet. https://t.co/ewfeIKayf1
- Manuel Valls (@manuelvalls) September 11, 2020
The Christmas tree at Place Pey Berland will be replaced by live shows. #BXlive #Bordeaux
- Bordeaux (@Bordeaux) September 10, 2020 A decision that did not take long to react in the political sphere and beyond, and not only in Bordeaux. Opponent MoDem Fabien Robert , and former first deputy mayor, slipped on Twitter a “Bordeaux, sad city”.
Bordeaux, sad city ... https://t.co/0UVMrqIi9O
- Fabien ROBERT (@fabienrobert) September 10, 2020 For Hauts-de-France President Xavier Bertrand, “the Christmas tree like the Tour de France are traditions that unite us”. Obviously reference to another announcement which caused controversy this week, when the new EELV mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet criticized the Tour de France , an event "macho" and "not eco-responsible. "
Call me old world if you want, but the Christmas tree, @LeTour de France and all those traditions that unite us will always be the glue of a society. #Bordeaux #Lyon https://t.co/bR6y53dVrG
- Xavier Bertrand (@xavierbertrand) September 11, 2020 🎄 The mayor @EELV of #Bordeaux @PierreHurmic announces the removal of the Christmas tree from Place pey-Berland: “We will not put dead trees in the town squares”.
He adds: “at the end of 2020, we will adopt the tree rights charter!”
#GeorgeOrwell # 1984 pic.twitter.com/0UYl1dNKTT
- Jérôme Godefroy (@jeromegodefroy) September 10, 2020 The Christmas tree -this “gadget”, it seems, removed from the Place de l'Hotel-de-Ville in Bordeaux: confirmation that the Greens have lived up to now among themselves, in sect.
Pierre Hurmic said he was flabbergasted by the reactions his decision provoked.
We have the right to be dumbfounded that he is dumbfounded.
- D. de Montvalon (@ demontvalon1) September 11, 2020 In Bordeaux we remove the Christmas tree, in Lyon we hate #TourdeFrance ... or when ideology and stupidity want to put an end to popular traditions.This political ecology has nothing to do with the preservation of the environment and the planet. https://t.co/ewfeIKayf1
- Manuel Valls (@manuelvalls) September 11, 2020
20 Minutes learn this Friday that a petition is launched on change.org , “for the maintenance of this tree, symbol of tradition, celebration and magic for young and old alike. We don't want Bordeaux to become a sad city, especially during the holiday season. "
"A departure from the tradition of family celebrations and the end of the year"
Contacted this Friday by 20 Minutes , the opposition municipal councilor Fabien Robert reacted strongly to this decision. “This is not the priority subject in Bordeaux, and this tree must not become the tree that hides the forest of problems. But it's pathetic. Pierre Hurmic explained a few days ago on the radio that he was not there to do com, if that is not com what is it? It's purely communication to please a minority of people who have a problem with cutting down trees for decoration, which I can hear, but we're talking about the end of year celebrations. year, family gatherings. I am not talking of religion, but of tradition. From my point of view, it's a departure
from the tradition of family celebrations and the end of the year. "
The former deputy for culture of Bordeaux also believes that "it is a distortion of the image of Bordeaux". “This extremely bright tree in front of the cathedral rose window, how many times have we seen it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram? We are in the era of the image and we degrade the image of Bordeaux. "For the elected MoDem," all this is emblematic of what is happening in France with these ecological town halls which, contrary to what they say, attack symbols of France, such as the Tour de France ".
Too high a cost?
Environmentalists, for their part, put forward the cost of this Christmas tree, which would amount to "several tens of thousands of euros" and ensure that they will replace this tree with live shows on the Place Pey-Berland.
I just read "the environmentalists they will kill the magic of Christmas".
Seriously, the installation of a tree that costs the community SEVERAL TENS THOUSANDS OF EUROS each year, for a tree, all large all alone that ends up in the trash, is it magic?
- 🌻 Harmonie Lecerf 🌻 (@ Ecolaw2) September 10, 2020 Faced with the rising controversy, Mayor Pierre Hurmic reacted this Friday on LCI , explaining "that there will not be this tree at Christmas in Bordeaux, but there will be much better, because we want to liven up this place (. ..) We still have the right, when you are mayor of a city, to say that you will choose a type of animation that is a little more lively for the Christmas holidays, rather than bringing in at great expense a cut tree. "
"Let's do both, nothing prevents adding shows to the Christmas tree, even if there is already a program of Christmas festivities in this city", retorts Fabien Robert. The elected representative recalls in passing that the Place Pey-Berland had been fitted out twenty years ago to accommodate this Christmas tree: “The place was designed with the tree, we told the architects to take into account the Christmas tree . "
"A departure from the tradition of family celebrations and the end of the year"
Contacted this Friday by 20 Minutes , the opposition municipal councilor Fabien Robert reacted strongly to this decision. “This is not the priority subject in Bordeaux, and this tree must not become the tree that hides the forest of problems. But it's pathetic. Pierre Hurmic explained a few days ago on the radio that he was not there to do com, if that is not com what is it? It's purely communication to please a minority of people who have a problem with cutting down trees for decoration, which I can hear, but we're talking about the end of year celebrations. year, family gatherings. I am not talking of religion, but of tradition. From my point of view, it's a departure
from the tradition of family celebrations and the end of the year. "
The former deputy for culture of Bordeaux also believes that "it is a distortion of the image of Bordeaux". “This extremely bright tree in front of the cathedral rose window, how many times have we seen it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram? We are in the era of the image and we degrade the image of Bordeaux. "For the elected MoDem," all this is emblematic of what is happening in France with these ecological town halls which, contrary to what they say, attack symbols of France, such as the Tour de France ".
Too high a cost?
Environmentalists, for their part, put forward the cost of this Christmas tree, which would amount to "several tens of thousands of euros" and ensure that they will replace this tree with live shows on the Place Pey-Berland.
I just read "the environmentalists they will kill the magic of Christmas".
Seriously, the installation of a tree that costs the community SEVERAL TENS THOUSANDS OF EUROS each year, for a tree, all large all alone that ends up in the trash, is it magic?
- 🌻 Harmonie Lecerf 🌻 (@ Ecolaw2) September 10, 2020 Faced with the rising controversy, Mayor Pierre Hurmic reacted this Friday on LCI , explaining "that there will not be this tree at Christmas in Bordeaux, but there will be much better, because we want to liven up this place (. ..) We still have the right, when you are mayor of a city, to say that you will choose a type of animation that is a little more lively for the Christmas holidays, rather than bringing in at great expense a cut tree. "
"Let's do both, nothing prevents adding shows to the Christmas tree, even if there is already a program of Christmas festivities in this city", retorts Fabien Robert. The elected representative recalls in passing that the Place Pey-Berland had been fitted out twenty years ago to accommodate this Christmas tree: “The place was designed with the tree, we told the architects to take into account the Christmas tree . "
