“Several tens of thousands of people” expected for “demonstrations” this weekend, according to the Bassines spokesperson No thank you! in the Deux-Sèvres

Julien Le Guet spokesperson for Bassines No thank you! in Deux-Sèvres, guest of the morning of France Bleu Poitou Wednesday morning March 22, ensures that “several tens of thousands of people” are expected to participate in “demonstration-actions” against the mega-basins from this Friday and until Sunday.

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The leader and spokesperson for Bassines No thank you! wants to “stop at all costs” this project of mega-basins in southern Deux-Sèvres. The goal is to concretely stop the projects, as we had been able to do in Sainte-Soline, to remove the grids so that it could delay the site. “demonstrations in Mauzé and Sainte-Soline”such as actions “to restore or renature our territories which have been very badly treated”, he says. The spokesperson also promises “very positive actions which go in the direction of the agriculture of tomorrow which are also carried by the Confédération paysanne. It is a question of preventing the worst and building the best in parallel”, he assures.

Prohibited from territory on the two municipalities

Julien Le Guet is banned from the territory of the two municipalities concerned, Sainte-Soline and Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon. “I will approach as close as possible to Sainte-Soline”, he assures. “To prohibit me from staying because there are basins in a municipality, it is still a very particular conception of fundamental freedoms and regional planning. If, by extension, that means that all people who are against mega-pools can no longer go there, it can be problematic in terms of fundamental freedoms.

The spokesperson for the collective Bassines Non Merci! was heard at the Niort gendarmerie last Friday. He denounces “a rather unpredictable and lamentable pressure blow since it is the third time in a row that the State, the prefect in agreement with the prosecutor, which is very questionable on a constitutional level concerning the separation of powers, sets their agenda for communication in concomitant ways and come to challenge me a week before the demonstration. It is a major strategic error”. Julien Le Guet ensures that “these are indeed tens of thousands of people” who will travel through the region.

“Dialogue is the only way out of this crisis”

More than 200 organizations are calling for demonstrations this weekend, despite the bans from the Deux-Sèvres prefecture. “Dialogue is the only way out of this crisis, concludes Julien Le Guet. Today, we cannot continue the ‘à la papa’ irrigation of the 1980s. The State is in fact responsible for the situation of tension and crisis which is taking place in Vienne and Deux-Sèvres. By refusing that real territorial and water management projects can be built by all citizens, he is guilty of these very strong tensions. The collective does not rule out the possibility of creating ZADs, in particular on the plots of Sainte-Soline, irrigated by the basin.