The icon of the fight against climate change joined the mobilization which supports the collective, whose dissolution was formalized on Wednesday.
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” VS’is a matter of the right to protest and the defense of life. Greta Thunberg, present in Paris on the sidelines of a summit for a new global financial pact, was indignant at the government’s decision to dissolve the environmental collective Les Uprisings of the Earth (SLT). The Swedish activist joined the rally on Wednesday June 21 to support and denounce this decision.
A few hours after the dissolution, pronounced Wednesday morning in the Council of Ministers, the lawyers of the collective announced Wednesday their intention to file an appeal before the Council of State, because it “intervenes in defiance of fundamental freedoms, of which this government has not finally what to do, such as freedom of association […]but also freedom of expression,” said Ms.e Raphael Kempf. “The government does not have a solid legal basis to dissolve the Earth Uprisings. »
“A question of the right to demonstrate and the defense of life”
And Me Ainoha Pascual, his colleague, clarified: “We dispute even the name of the “de facto group” because The Uprisings of the Earth is a movement which is horizontal, which cannot be dissolved. »
“Now, from tomorrow, when the decree finally becomes effective after its publication in the Official Gazette, what will happen? asked the lawyer. “The more than 100,000 people” who claim to belong to the group will be “liable to three years’ imprisonment”, he replied. “Is the government ready to go to the absurd point of putting more than 100,000 people in this country in prison? »
“I hope that more people will mobilize against what is happening at the moment, and will defend the right to demonstrate”, declared Greta Thunberg, during the rally in support, where were present members of the collective, elected officials, such as as Mathilde Panot of La France insoumise, and organizations.
READ ALSOSupport for the Earth Uprisings: “We are not eco-terrorists! » In Lille, Toulouse, Montpellier, Marseille or Strasbourg, rallies were held in solidarity with the collective. In Nantes, not far from Notre-Dame-des-Landes, where Les Uprisings of the Earth were born, around a thousand people gathered to protest against this dissolution.
A procedure initiated on March 28
The government accused the collective of “calling” and “participating” in violence. “The use of violence is not legitimate in the rule of law and that is what is sanctioned,” said government spokesman Olivier Véran.
“Under the guise of defending the preservation of the environment”, this movement “incites the commission of sabotage and material damage, including by violence”, writes the government in its decree of dissolution. But “no cause justifies the particularly numerous and violent acts” to which it “calls and provokes” and “in which its members and sympathizers participate”, adds the decree.
READ ALSOThe left is outraged by the dissolution of the Earth UprisingsTo support its argument, the government lists a series of actions carried out by SLT which resulted in “material destruction” and “physical attacks on the police”.
The government had initiated the dissolution procedure on March 28, a few days after the violent clashes between gendarmes and opponents of the water reservoirs of Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) for which it had attributed responsibility to the movement. The procedure, which remained blocked for more than two months, finally succeeded after a new demonstration supported by SLT this weekend, against the Lyon-Turin rail link, marked by scuffles.