The national secretary of EELV Marine Tondelier denounces “oversized means of repression” against environmentalists

She denounces an overbidding. The national secretary of Europe Ecology Les Verts Marine Tondelier deplored Wednesday June 21 on Public Senate “the oversized means of repression” And “bullying” put in place against environmentalists while the government is going to dissolve the collective the Uprisings of the Earth and that a wave of arrests of environmental activists took place on Tuesday.

“We want to equate all ecology with violence to better hide the root of the problems. I will not let this government make environmentalists the scapegoats for their climate inaction”, denounced the environmentalist.

“Deleterious climate”

Regarding the dissolution of the Earth Uprisings she said to wait “to see their elements to justify this dissolution” And “which justifies this attack on the freedom of association and assembly”. Marine Tondelier also regretted “the deleterious climate” against environmental activists. “When Gérald Darmanin speaks of eco-terrorism or agri-sabotage, the consequence on the ground is that there is an upsurge in attacks against environmental activists”she continued.

For Generations Deputy Benjamin Lucas, the dissolution of the Earth Uprisings presents the “ingredients of an authoritarian shift in a regime in which opposition is criminalized”, he criticized on RFI. MP Delphine Batho judged on franceinfo this dissolution “contrary to the rule of law”. “Using and employing the word terrorist lightly is very serious”she denounced.