“We are not trying to hinder the movement of people coming from the Île de Ré,” explains Julien Le Guet, spokesperson for the Bassines non merci collective, invited on franceinfo on Saturday.
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Several hundred demonstrators and tractors set up camp on Saturday morning, July 20, in front of the buildings of the grain merchant Soufflet, located in the commercial port area of La Rochelle.“We will occupy these places for at least the day.”assured Julien Le Guet, spokesperson for the collective Bassines non merci (BNM), on franceinfo on Saturday.
“We wanted to do a one-off blockade, a symbolic blockade of the agro-industrial port only” from La Rochelle, he summed up. “We are not trying to hinder the movement of people coming from the Isle of Ré”he explained.
In the sights of the anti-basines collective, the port of La Pallice, “formerly a slave port”with its “giant silos”symbol of a “domination report for all farmers in our territory”. “It was really to highlight that there is a whole sector and a whole system behind the mega-basins,” argued Julien Le Guet. Farmers “find themselves tied hand and foot with this type of company which pushes for territories to be ‘watered'”the activist stressed.
