According to the government spokesman, the dissolution will be pronounced “as soon as possible”. This could be at the next Council of Ministers.
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Ihe government spokesperson Olivier Véran confirmed on Tuesday the forthcoming dissolution of the environmental association the Uprisings of the Earth (SLT), because “the climatic cause does not justify going to stone the gendarmes on a field”. Perhaps at the council of ministers on Wednesday, perhaps at that of “next week”, but in any case the dissolution will be pronounced “as soon as possible”, specified the minister on the set of CNews, questioned on a possible “rise in violence” in society, after the very violent attack on an old lady and a little girl in Bordeaux. “We do not dissolve an association based on its ideas, we dissolve it because there are abuses or the endangerment of public security, this is the case here”, he summarized.
More generally, he felt that “as our society modernizes, aspirations for security grow”. “In the same movement, we see several forms of violence emerging on the margins of our society”, he continued, citing “the violence that we have seen in certain demonstrations”, “the gratuitous violence of everyday life” , the “verbal abuse […] on social networks”, “violence at school through bullying…”.
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The decree on Wednesday?
The Uprisings of the Earth have, according to him, “showed violence in Sainte-Soline (during a demonstration against a giant reservoir of water for irrigation, editor’s note) by inviting thugs who came from all over Europe with metal bars, petanque balls to try to kill police officers”. From a source familiar with the matter, the dissolution decree will be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, unless there is a surprise. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin initiated this dissolution procedure on March 28, a few days after the violent clashes in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres).
Remained blocked for more than two months, the procedure moved last week, after the deterioration in particular of a vegetable farm in Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu (Loire-Atlantique) during a traveling demonstration against the exploitation sand for industrial purposes in Saint-Colomban, at the request of SLT in particular. SLT is a heterogeneous collective of associations, unions, groups created in January 2021 in the former ZAD (zone to defend) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes.