HELL FOR THE TREES OF THABOR

Around Hell, in Thabor Park, the city of Rennes cuts a tree on the ground with a chainsaw. She warned walkers by way of posters. “Here, we carry out maintenance pruning and felling,” says the municipality. Questioned by us, the elected official in charge of the file, Didier Chapelon, did not deign to answer us. Only Pascal Branchu, a member of the Nature en ville association, tried to clarify. “Given the “head” of the bench, I presume, a fall…”, he specifies. “It is for this reason that we are on daily watch on major construction sites and projects. Fifty meters away, on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, around 6 p.m., a grandmother and her daughter had received an oak tree when they passed. The septuagenarian had been taken to the hospital. (https://www.rennes-infos-autrement.fr/le-chene-tombe-sur-la-grand-mere-et-sa-petite-fille-au-thabor-la-colere-du-grand-pere/).