Environmentalist senator Yannick Jadot was outraged on Wednesday at the difference in treatment reserved by the government for blocking actions carried out by farmers compared to those of environmentalists. The double standard “is obvious,” said the former presidential candidate.
Environmentalist senator Yannick Jadot was outraged on Wednesday at the difference in treatment reserved by the government for blocking actions carried out by farmers compared to those of environmentalists, who, if they did “a thousandth of what is happening today hui”, would be “in prison and sentenced”.
Double standards “are obvious”, said the former presidential candidate on Public Senate, judging that “it is still surprising to see that, in our country, when we defend the general interest, we is immediately sanctioned and when we defend corporate interests – which are legitimate today – we do not have the same answers as the FNSEA”, the main agricultural union.
Taxes, standards, difficulties in living… multiple demands
If the Last Renovation collective “blocks a highway on the climate issue for a quarter of an hour, they are in police custody and the trials fall, and the sanctions fall,” observed Yannick Jadot. “I think that we will not calm the anger by banning demonstrations, and this is valid for any type of demonstration elsewhere,” joked the leader of the environmentalists Marine Tondelier on TF1, saying she supported “200 %” the current movement.
Farmers have been demonstrating and blocking roads all over France for a week to protest against their difficulties in making a living from their work but also against the gradual increase in the tax on non-road diesel and the accumulation of standards, particularly environmental ones. A mobilization mourning the death of a farmer and her daughter in Ariège, hit Tuesday by a car at a dam in Pamiers.