“Justice has called to order the government which uses disproportionate, even illegal, levers against environmental activists,” rejoices an association

“You don’t dissolve an uprising“: like Attac, Thursday November 9, many voices welcomed the cancellation of the dissolution of the Earth Uprisings. The Council of State in fact inflicted a snub on the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin by canceling his decision, announced in June, to dissolve the environmentalist collective. “No provocation of violence against people can be attributed to the Earth Uprisings“, ruled the highest French administrative court, thus confirming a first decision rendered in August in summary proceedings.

“This is a great victory for the rule of law“, rejoiced, on his accountYou don’t dissolve an uprising! Excellent news for the Rule of Law!“Greenpeace France speaks of “excellent news for public freedoms”. Finally, the Earth Uprisings write on their side”Cheh” by questioning the Minister of the Interior, on X.

In its judgment, the Council of State considers that the collective has delivered itself well “to provocations and violent actions against property“notably on the occasion of the demonstration in March against the construction of water reservoirs in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), but the dissolution”did not constitute an appropriate, necessary and proportionate measure to the seriousness of the disturbances likely to cause public order“.

Jeremy Suissa, general delegate of the “Our business to all” association, mobilized to the fight against climate changesees here the repressive tendency of the government sanctioned: “We see that justice, today, calls to order the government which, very clearly, uses levers which are disproportionate, even illegal, against environmental activists“, he congratulates himself on franceinfo.

“Despite the threat of dissolution, there were more of us each time”

With this affair, the Minister of the Interior polarized the debate, but also strengthened the Earth Uprisings. The last mobilization, a few weeks ago against the A69, was a success, bringing together several thousand opponents of this highway between Castres and Toulouse.

“Since March 2023, 150,000 people have declared themselves as stakeholders in this movement and have taken responsibility for saying ‘We are the Uprisings of the Earth’. 200 local committees have been created throughout France. All the actions that were initially planned took place, despite the threat of dissolution, and each time we were more and more numerous against the basins, against the Castres-Toulouse highway and in many other actions.”underlines Joan, a pillar of the Earth Uprisings.

Today, the movement is as well known as the large NGOs and has become a key partner of environmental mobilizations.