the Swedish Greta Thunberg will be present this weekend in Tarn

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will be present this weekend in Saïx, in Tarn, on the occasion of a mobilization organized against the A69 construction site, franceinfo and France Bleu Occitanie learned from the organizers on Friday February 9 .

Greta Thunberg will be in Saïx from Saturday noon with other international activists and activists, specifies the La Voie est libre collective, organizer of the mobilization against the motorway project. During this weekend called the Cabanade, the organizers announced that they wanted to build cabins and collective places around a ZAD, a zone to be defended, currently being created in Saïx.

The location of Saturday’s event has not yet been made public but will, organizers say “a private place where the police cannot intervene”. Friday, the prefecture issued an order to prohibit any gathering against the A69 construction site in the Tarn commune of Saïx due to “of the risks of major disorders to public order”, after already several gatherings including that of October 21 and 22, 2023 which brought together thousands of people.

The prefect considers in his decree that “Previous gatherings have given rise to excesses despite the implementation of a significant security system.” 90 gendarmes are mobilized “For secure the public highway depending on the prefecture.