Jacques Serais, edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez
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08:00 a.m., October 31, 2022
Opponents of the “mega-basin” project in Sainte-Soline in Deux-Sèvres continue to occupy the land near the site, to the chagrin of the police who cannot dislodge them for the moment. A real political dilemma for the executive who wants to avoid the installation of a new ZAD.
Whether or not to intervene in Sainte-Soline, a political dilemma for the executive who fears that the site will become the new Notre-Dame-des-Landes. This is the primary objective of Gérald Darmanin: that no ZAD takes place in the commune of Deux-Sèvres. “I will leave a thousand gendarmes in the department,” he argued. “It is out of the question to see a new Notre-Dame-des-Landes set up.”
An “ecoterrorism” denounced by Darmanin
A message of firmness, where the Minister of the Interior went so far as to denounce “ecoterrorism”. Saturday’s clashes left 61 gendarmes injured, 22 of them seriously. Problem for the latter: their means of action are limited. The demonstrators are currently on private land, and therefore it is impossible at this stage to dislodge them, explains the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau: “Obviously, at one point you say to yourself ‘after all, they could go there stronger ‘, but the truth is that the great strength of a democracy is to respect the law and to have a proportionate use of force.”
The minister insisted by declaring that in France, “we are not in a totalitarian state. We are not in China, we are not in Russia. apply and that is the strength of a democracy.” Beyond the fear of a new ZAD, it is also the Sivens dam that is on everyone’s mind. Rémi Fraisse, an environmental activist, had lost his life there. Difficulty for the executive to use the hard way, at the risk once again of suffering the situation.