Tear gas was fired near the La Crémade ZAD site in Saïx (Tarn). At the start of the afternoon, the Tarn prefecture counted “one hundred people”, “most of them in the process of leaving”.
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The police once again used tear gas in the immediate vicinity of a camp of opponents of the A69 motorway project, mobilized for the third day in a row in Saïx (Tarn), Sunday February 11. “One hundred people” participants in the rally were still there at the beginning of the afternoon, “mostly in the process of leaving”specified the Tarn prefecture.
“The gendarmes cleared the barricades on the Chemin de la Gascarié”, on the outskirts of the ZAD de la Crémade, at the exit of Castres (Tarn), the town that the A69 must connect to Toulouse. An AFP journalist and photographer witnessed clashes between the gendarmes, who fired at least ten tear gas shots, saturating the air with irritating white smoke, and around a hundred opponents.
Evictions planned “in the coming days”
Like Friday and Saturday, the opponents occupied a railway line running along the wooded and private land where Zadists are trying to prevent the continuation of the A69 construction site. The SNCF has set up a bus system to compensate for the interruption of traffic on this line, where it is due to resume on Monday.
The prefect of Tarn announced on Friday that he “issued an order prohibiting demonstrations and gatherings” in public spaces Saturday and Sunday in Saïx. Since Friday, the police have systematically cleared the makeshift barricades that the demonstrators subsequently reconstructed. The gendarmerie made two arrests on Friday and two others on Saturday, according to the prefecture. At the end of the day, the prefect indicated, in a press release, that the expulsion of the occupants will take place “in the coming days”.
