“I think that the French are a little fed up that every time we talk about making projects, there are more and more radical people”, however insisted the government spokesperson during the count- report of the Council of Ministers.
Government spokesman Olivier Véran did not “knowingly“did not use the term” ecoterrorism “used by Gérald Darmanin after the incidents Saturday, October 29 in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), even if”the French are fed up» increasingly radical protests around construction projects.
A prohibited demonstration, but having brought together several thousand people, near this construction site of a disputed agricultural reservoir in Deux-Sèvres gave rise to violent clashes between radical militants and the police. 61 gendarmes were injured, 22 of them seriously, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
“I think the French are a bit fed up – and I understand them – that every time we talk about making projects, there are people who are more and more radical in the methods of intervention and in the protest“, replied Olivier Véran during the report of the Council of Ministers.
“Order must be restored”
And this “even when there has been a public inquiry, even when there has been a public debate, and even when everything has been validated by elected officials from all sides. If you take the case of basins, even the green MPs were in favor of this project, which is not a government project but a local project, stemming from agricultural pluralism, and which aims to enable farmers to feed humans by maintaining fruits, vegetables and hydrating animals“, continued the Minister Delegate.
Relaunched to find out if the government took over the expression of the Minister of the Interior, Olivier Véran replied that he “makes a global answer on the question, knowingly evading the semantic commentary“. But the governmenthad no discussion on this issue“, he assured.
However, he again insisted on theviolence of the ultras, people clearly not come to defend the planet or to defend the residual rainwater above the water tables but to fight it out“. “Order must be restored“, he concluded.
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