The pedestrian bridge connecting Irun to Hendaia can be used from next Sunday, a day earlier than announced.
The French government has done that reopened This Sunday, a day earlier than announced, will be historic Avenue bridge connecting Irun (Gipuzkoa) and Hendaia (Lapurdi).after being closed for more than almost three years by the French authorities, who claimed that there was a terrorist risk to take this measure.
The mayor of Hendaia, Kotte Ezenarro, relayed the news this afternoon to the councilor of Irun, José Antonio Santano, municipal sources said. Then this Sunday, French workers removed the fences blocking the passage on the bridge between Hego and Ipar Euskal Herria.
The prefecture of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques announced two weeks ago its decision to reopen on October 30 the four border crossings those still closed, those on the Avenida Bridge and those of Larrau, Urkiaga and Izpegi, in Navarra, once the celebration of the Rugby World Cup held in France until this Saturday.
This organization then explained that the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had informed by letter on September 30 his Spanish counterpart, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to whom he said that the reopening was due to “the progress which is booked with the mixed patrols’. .” in those areas.”
Specific to the “intensifying cross-border cooperation” reached at the French-Spanish summit in Barcelona on January 19, which took place in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in an increase in joint patrols and this should be further developed in the coming weeks.
Institutions and social actors, against closure
Since the closure of the Avenida Bridge in January 2021, social organizations on both sides of the border have denounced that the purpose of these controls was not to reduce the terrorist risk, but rather to restrict the entry of migrants in transit.
The municipal councils of Irun, Hondarribia and Hendaia, as well as parties and institutions on both sides of the border, had urged France to reopen this border crossing, a demand supported by almost 13,000 citizen signatures.
Source: EITB
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