Rallies were scheduled in several cities in France on Wednesday after the announcement, in the Council of Ministers, of the dissolution of the environmental movement, accused of violence by the government.
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About a thousand people, according to the organizers, 1,200 according to the prefecture, gathered Wednesday evening in front of the prefecture in Nantes in support of the Uprisings of the Earth, the dissolution of which was announced that same day in the Council of Ministers.
Several unions (CGT, FSU, Solidaires) participated in the rally in Nantes where many activists, marked by the long struggle against the airport project at Notre-Dame-Des-Landes finally abandoned, are particularly sensitive to this dissolution in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. The members of the Nantes support committee have announced new gatherings in France on June 28 and call for action to “a thousand ways” in the coming period.
Gatherings in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Montpellier
Several dozen rallies were scheduled for Wednesday evening throughout France in support of the collective, accused of violence by the government. In Paris there were several hundred, in the presence in particular of the deputy Mathilde Panot (LFI). Other gatherings brought together around 200 people in Lille, Montpellier and Marseille as well as a hundred in Strasbourg.
In Toulouse, between 200 and 300 people also gathered. Among them, several members of the “La Voie Est Libre” collective, opposed to the construction of the motorway to link Castres to the Ville Rose, according to which, instead of “to act in the face of climate change, (…) the State prefers to break the thermometer”. At the end of the afternoon, the lawyers of the collective, Mes Raphaël Kempf and Ainoha Pascual, announced the imminent filing of an appeal with the Council of State, to challenge the dissolution.