After the mobilization against the mega-water retention basin in Deux-Sèvres, Gérald Darmanin qualified, Sunday, October 30, of “ecoterrorism” the violence on the part of certain demonstrators.
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“The Minister of the Interior must learn to keep his cool”reacted Monday, October 31 on franceinfo Delphine Batho, ecologist deputy for Deux-Sèvres, president of Génération Écologie, after Gérald Darmanin described the anti-basin demonstration in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres, as a“ecoterrorism”.
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“The word terrorism is not a qualification that we use lightly in a country that has known the attacks against Charlie Hebdo, at the Bataclan, in Niceinsisted Delphine Batho. It makes no sense.” However, the member intends “condemn violent acts” which took place on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 October in Deux-Sèvres: “I condemn violence wherever it comes from, without using qualifiers that are inappropriate.“Delphine Batho refuses “the trivialization of this term terrorism”. “You have to know how to keep reason”added the chosen one.
Words have meaning. The Minister of the Interior insults the memory of the victims of terrorism. To confuse everything, we end up with the hysterization of the debate. When one is a minister, one has a higher responsibility. We control our speech and we seek appeasement. pic.twitter.com/70TSnekSzO
— Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) October 31, 2022
“The Minister of the Interior insults the memory of the victims of terrorism”also denounced sur Twitter the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure. “To confuse everything, we end up with the hysterization of the debate”he was annoyed.
According to Delphine Batho, in Sainte-Soline, “the inhabitants were not consulted even though it is the water from our rivers, it is the water from our groundwater, it is drinking water”. the chosen one ask so be it “organized in Deux-Sèvres a local referendum on water policy and on this project so that the inhabitants can decide through democracy”.