five lawyers to accompany the prefects to prevent any establishment of zones to be defended

Gérald Darmanin will no longer tolerate ZAD in France. In an interview with the “JDD” on Sunday, he announced the establishment of a special legal unit to prevent any appeal.

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There will be no more ZAD in France to question the authority of the State, assures Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, on April 2, 2023 in the JDD.  (Illustration photo, the Gonesse ZAD in 2021).  (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin affirms in the JDD Sunday April 2 that “no more zone to defend” will not settle in the country, especially after the violent clashes last week between the police and opponents of the project of “mega-basins” in Sainte-Soline in Deux-Sèvres. He announced the establishment of a “anti-ZAD cell within the Ministry of the Interior which should see the light of day on September 1, according to his entourage, joined by franceinfo.

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According to information from franceinfo, this unit will be made up of five lawyers. Their mission will be to accompany the prefects in the event of legal recourse, to prevent any establishment of zones to be defended. About thirty projects are disputed on the territory, with different degrees of intensity, indicates to franceinfo the place Beauvau. Among them, the construction of the motorway between Toulouse and Castres, the extension of Lille airport and the TGV lines.

Following the events in Sainte-Soline, Gérald Darmanin asked for the dissolution of the movement “Les Uprisings of the Earth”, one of the organizers of the demonstration. On Sunday, the Minister of the Interior announced in the Sunday newspaper that he would do the same for Defco (Collective Defense), a movement from Rennes in Ille-et-Vilaine which “calls for an uprising”.


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