Posted
Update
Video length: 2 min.
Article written by
Nearly 3,000 opponents gathered on Saturday June 17 against the future high-speed rail line between Lyon and Turin. This project has been the subject of controversy and resistance from certain associations for 30 years.
Jstones against tear gas. Shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday June 17, the tension rose a notch between opponents of the Lyon-Turin railway line and the police. This gathering was banned two days earlier by the prefecture. An incomprehensible decision, for the demonstrators. “We always try to make things go as smoothly as possible, peacefully. And we have a power relationship“said a protester.”I don’t want violence, I don’t want any of that. But I just spoke with, I don’t know, 4,000 people“, adds another.
Eight slightly injured
Between 3,000 and 5,000 people, on the initiative of the environmental collective “Earth Uprisings“, denounce the environmental impact of this project, initiated more than 30 years ago. Linking Lyon (Rhône) to Turin (Italy) by train, in less than two hours, instead of four currently. The defenders of the project, them, claim that it would make it possible to remove 700,000 trucks a year from the roads of the Alps.Determined to be heard, the demonstrators contained on the bridge of a departmental road chose to cross the river, in an attempt to block the Saturday evening, the authorities claim to have done everything to avoid overflows.The prefecture counts this evening eight minor injuries, one on the side of the demonstrators, seven within the police.