The activists are mobilized despite the ban on the demonstration. Some 2,000 people gathered on Saturday June 8 to protest against the construction site of the A69 Castres-Toulouse motorway, the gendarmerie said. A gendarme and a police officer were slightly injured, according to the prefecture. “There are 1,100 light vehicles on the Puylaurens site”specified the prefect, adding that 1,600 police officers and gendarmes are mobilized. “We will hold out as long as it takes to discourage” [les manifestants], he assured. Follow our live stream.
Procession against “concreteization” and “land artificialization”. SATURDAY, during of a demonstration between the protest camp located near the village of Puylaurens and the highway construction site, the activists of the Peasant Confederation denounced the “concrete” And “land artificialization”. The procession of several dozen people, dotted with the yellow flags of the agricultural union, went to a plot of land threatened by the construction site in order to sow seeds. “for the future”declared Laurence Marandola, spokesperson for the Peasant Confederation.
Demonstration prohibited. The environmentalist demonstration was not officially declared but was banned by the authorities at the request of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, for fear of violence. The gathering is notably organized at the call of the Uprisings of the Earth, whose dissolution Gérald Darmanin had ordered, rejected by the Council of State.
Several people arrested. Eight people have so far been arrested, announced Friday evening the prefect of Tarn, Michel Vilbois. Moreover, “148 items intended for weapons” have been seized since Monday, including “nail boards”of the “knives of all sizes”of the “frondes” or some “serpetes”, in his words. No incidents were reported overnight from Friday to Saturday.