Minister Dieschbourg should have "closed the site and denounced the case"

As the controversial works were carried out in a section of land in the Prënzebierg nature reserve, they should never have been authorised and cannot be regulated, according to legal consultation undertaken by the opposition. The Minister for the Environment, Carole Dieschbourg, should have closed the construction site and reported the activities to the public prosecutor's office. Several lawyers worked on the text viewed by RTL.

Former Differdange mayor Roberto Traversini resigned as mayor the very same day that the public prosecutor's office announced it would investigate him for a conflict of interest. Lawyer Georges Krieger accused Dieschbourg of being equally accountable in the affair for not reporting Traversini.

The building stands on a section of land upon which any construction is prohibited in accordance with a Grand Ducal ruling from 1991. The authorisation given by the Minister for the Environment on 12 August contravened this act, said the legal consultation. The Minister should have halted building work in hindsight and reported the situation to the prosecutor's office. Such a construction would be subject to a fine.

Dieschbourg should also have followed up all information relating to the conception of the project, in accordance with a three-month old extract from the cadastre. Without this information, Roberto Traversini's proposal should have been rejected and should never have progressed to building stage. Had the information been correctly supplied, it would have been noted that the construction was to take place in a nature reserve and therefore should have been denied, according to the legal document.