Four days after the demonstration in Sainte-Soline, which led to violent clashes with the police, the government cannot digest the facts. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne denounced Wednesday before the Senate “unacceptable and deeply shocking scenes” on Saturday during the demonstration near a site of a contested agricultural reservoir in Sainte-Soline in Deux-Sèvres.
A prohibited demonstration, but having brought together several thousand people, near this site of mega basins 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.
The government “knowingly” abandons the term “ecoterrorism”
“If the majority of the demonstrators were peaceful, several hundred violent individuals attacked the gendarmes who were protecting the site, indicated the head of government. Justice is seized, and I can assure you, there will be no impunity for these perpetrators of violence”.
After these incidents, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin spoke of “ecoterrorism” on the part of violent demonstrators. A term that Elisabeth Borne did not take up in the Senate nor, “knowingly”, the government spokesperson Olivier Véran on Wednesday at the exit of the Council of Ministers.
Source: 20minutes
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