The Brignoud bridge between Grenoble and Chambery was deliberately set on fire at the beginning of April. It has not been reopened to car traffic until today, so that the inhabitants of the Grésivaudan valley have to take long detours to cross the river Isère. Only pedestrians and cyclists are allowed to use the Brignoud bridge again. The 27,000 motorists who use the structure every day will now have to find other routes. The public prosecutor’s office in Grenoble blamed ultra-left activists for the attack.
“The closure of the Brignoud bridge to traffic is a disaster, business has dropped by 30%,” sighed Alain Jolly, president of the trade association of Crolles, a town of 8000 inhabitants in the Isère department, who himself runs a restaurant. The situation has been going on since April 5, after an arson attack damaged the structure built in 1934 across the Isère between Grenoble and Chambéry in the Grésivaudan valley, which is the link between Crolles, which is connected to the motorway, and Brignoud. […]
The Grenoble prosecutor’s office assumes that the perpetrators are an ultra-left libertarian group. The fire may have been directed against the high-tech company STMicroelectronics, whose power supply runs through this bridge. […]Le Parisien