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Deux-Sèvres was the scene of an environmental mobilization against the mega-basins of Sainte Soline. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanintherefore hardened its tone on Monday, October 31, and wants at all costs to avoid the creation of a zone to be defended (ZAD).
He had already expressed his support for the police during the first mobilizations against the construction of mega-basins in Sainte Soline (Two Sevres). Yesterday evening, Monday October 31, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmaninstrongly condemned the modus operandi of the demonstrators. “(They) are, I’m not afraid to say, eco-terrorism that we must fight“, he asserted.
The tone has gone up a notch between the police and the activists who want the establishment of a ZAD (area to be defended). “We will be able to monitor the potential return of the excavators if the government has not yet understood our message to stop this site immediately.“, declares an activist. But the minister opposes it and announces the reinforcement of the forces of order. There were more than 60 injured on the gendarme side and 50 injured from side of the protesters.
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