The director of the TGV tackles the PSG for its use of the aircraft

Alain Krakovitch gave the capital’s soccer membership a purple card on Sunday. The director of TGV-Intercités scolded PSG for having used the aircraft for its journey to Nantes on Friday when, in keeping with him, the SNCF provides a suggestion tailored to the wants of the membership.

“Paris-Nantes is in lower than two hours by TGV, I’m renewing our proposal for a TGV provide tailored to your particular wants, for our widespread pursuits: security, velocity, providers and eco-mobility”, he mentioned. he prompt in a tweet in response to a video of Italian midfielder Marco Verratti on the PSG aircraft posted on social media. Friday night, PSG went to win 3-0 on the garden of FC Nantes and made the spherical journey, as they do virtually each time, by aircraft.

Messi within the sights of Attac

The boss of the TGV has thus made his contribution to the talk on the usage of the aircraft, and specifically that of personal jets which has just lately raged inside the French political class. Some on the left and amongst environmentalists strongly want to body it due to the carbon impression of such a mode of transport.

On Friday, the anti-globalization affiliation Attac pointed to the angle of PSG participant Lionel Messi, whose personal jet has made 52 flights since June, “i.e. 1,502 tonnes of CO2”. “It is as a lot as a Frenchman in 150 years”, underlined the group, additionally calling for regulating the usage of personal jets.