A complaint was lodged with the local gendarmerie and according to initial findings, the damage would amount to nearly 3000 euros.
An act of vandalism whose perpetrator(s) remain unknown. During Christmas night, two snow guns located in the ski area of the resort of Les Gets, in Haute-Savoie, were heavily damaged. Jérôme Scarabelli, technical director of the premises, indicates on BFMTV that several cables have been cut and tags affixed.
“No skiing without snow”, can we read, written in red paint, on one of the machines.
“It’s very easy to attack us”
As reported France 3 Regions, a complaint was lodged with the gendarmerie of Taninges and the damage would amount to nearly 3000 euros. For the investigation, the police took several samples.
For the managers of the ski area, the situation is extremely complicated to manage during this school holiday period. Faced with the lack of snow, the damaged devices, which have not worked for several days, should allow users to ski despite everything.
“For us it’s very complicated, because we are the lowest part of the area and this year we are very short of snow. It’s very easy to attack us, they try to judge us in relation to the production of snow but when we know the file well we should realize that it is not a problem at all”, enrages our antenna Jérôme Scarabelli.
The Extinction Rebellion track?
On one of the damaged devices, the logo of the now famous activist movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) was also painted. Contacted by France 3 Regions, the Annecy branch of the movement denied being at the origin of these degradations.
“We do not claim this action in any way. We are not at the base of eco-saboteurs so this is clearly not our mode of action and it has never been discussed within our collective”, argues- your.
