According to Emilie Bonnivard, LR deputy for Savoie, it was a peaceful demonstration on Saturday but with radical organizations opposed to the Lyon-Turin rail tunnel project, which was banned by the prefecture of Savoie.
The demonstration against the Lyon-Turin rail tunnel project, scheduled for Saturday and which was banned by the Savoy prefecture, is “a two-faced event”, denounced Friday June 16 on franceinfo Emilie Bonnivard, deputy LR of Savoie. According to her, there is “a demonstration declared peaceful” on the one hand, “and behind, Les Uprisings of the Earth, radical organizations, which declare nothing and which we know, with a certain amount of information, to be present with a certain number of violent actions, as we saw in Sainte- Soline or even recently in Nantes”.
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If the prohibition order was issued by the prefect, it is because there is “very significant threats to public order, the safety of persons and property, with identified individuals who may be present at the demonstration, who are radical individuals, inadmissible from the territory, or even people who are on file S”, assures the deputy. Emilie Bonnivard emphasizes the fact that there is “a lot of concern from residents in Maurienne today” and “some are closing their businesses”. It includes the prohibition, because “the prefect was unable to be sure that the demonstration was going to be completely peaceful”.
It is “a project that is eminently ecological”, according to MP LR
The Member for Savoie would like “associations which are from the territory, which wish to make their opposition heard, can do so at another time”. But if despite the ban, rallies or demonstrations take place on Saturday, she calls on all her “fellow citizens, all the participants, some of whom are Maurienne people very attached to our valley, to come together peacefully despite the ban”.
Emilie Bonnivard supports the Lyon-Turin rail tunnel project, “a project that is eminently ecological” which is not comparable according to her “to other projects such as Notre-Dame-des-Landes”. “Today, we have three million heavy goods vehicles that pass the Alps each year. We have alpine valleys that are polluted with degraded air quality. This infrastructure is the only one that allows a massive transfer of freight from road to rail”. The member compares the French situation with what is happening in Switzerland, where “they have just finished the equivalent of Lyon-Turin in North-South, with three tunnels in the railway line”. “The Swiss spend 70% of their goods by rail. I don’t believe that the Swiss are the people who are the most destructive of the environment”adds Emilie Bonnivard.