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Megabassines: in Saint-Sauvant, tensions between demonstrators and police
Megabassines: in Saint-Sauvant, tensions between demonstrators and police
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On Friday, July 19, in Deux-Sèvres, more than 4,500 people have already reassembled in Sainte-Soline. The demonstrators are trying to meet up in Saint-Sauvant, but are blocked by police roadblocks.
From 8:30 am on Friday 19 July, the first tensions arose. Hundreds of demonstrators left their camp in Melle (Deux-Sèvres) to join the demonstration site in Saint-Sauvant (Vienne) despite the ban. The police tried to prevent them from passing with tear gas. 450 black blocs including more than a hundred individuals with S files, attached to the extreme left or radical ecology, were present.
A few kilometres away, at the call of the Rural Coordination, a hundred farmers and defenders of the basins gathered to defend the farms of the territory against the environmental demonstrators. A delegation of farmers was received by the mayor of Melle in a tense atmosphere. The fight between two irreconcilable camps has intensified over the past 2 years. 8,000 demonstrators are expected in Saint-Sauvant. Blocked by the police, they will meet a little further away, near the mega-basin construction site.
