Several environmental or union activists were to be heard by the gendarmerie as part of the investigation into the violence committed in Sainte-Soline. But for the spokespersons of the Confédération Paysanne and Bassines, no thank you!, the hearing turned into police custody. They were finally released in the evening.
Union activists and members of the Bassine collective, no thank you! were summoned for hearings in several cities in France, including Niort and Saint-Maixent, as part of the investigation into the events of last March in Sainte-Soline. But the hearing turned into police custody in Niort for Julien le Guet spokesperson for Bassines, no thank you! and for Benoît Jaunet, spokesperson for the Confédération Paysanne des Deux-Sèvres. Before entering the premises of the gendarmerie, he confided his somewhat mixed feelings to our team “I am not fighting for my colleagues to be summoned by the gendarmerie but rather to be a representative of whistleblowers who demand something else for our future as peasants and for the future of society.”
Several dozen people gathered in front of the NIort gendarmerie • © Guillaume Fautrat, France Télévisions
Julien Le Guet, whose arrival was greeted with applause, was worried about the government’s attitude. “The State has crossed a new Rubicon by calling on union officials, it is a new milestone in the non-respect of fundamental freedoms to express themselves, to act together for the common good.” For the Bassines spokesperson, no thank you!, the government is under pressure from the FNSEA, the agricultural union, after the dissolution of the Uprisings of the Earth, which the union has been calling for for a long time, the turn of the other unions, he believes. he.
Will the State still respond to the wishes of the FNSEA, which would like to eliminate the Confédération Paysanne? Especially since the FNSEA is the most violent union in the history of France, which each year will degrade public property, attack and intimidate environmental activists.
Julien Le Guet, spokesperson for Bassines, no, thank you!
Julien Le Guet was the victim of meningitis ten days ago, the condition caused facial paralysis and affected his physical form, so he asked that his police custody be shortened. After a quick transfer to the emergency room to be examined by a doctor, Julien Le Guet returned to the gendarmerie, the doctors having deemed his condition compatible with police custody. We learned at the end of the morning that he had decided to go on a hunger strike.
In addition, the two other activists heard in Saint-Maixent emerged free at the end of their hearing.
These decisions to place them in police custody were condemned by activists and sympathizers gathered outside, under the surveillance of the police.“we are extremely worried about the drift authoritarian of this government” worries Thomas Gibert, the national secretary of the Confédération Paysanne.
We are not terrorists, we are peasant men and women who work the land and our demands are legitimate. We want to open a dialogue on the preservation and sharing of water. We want a real body of water
Thomas Gibert, National Secretary of the Confédération Paysanne
For the moment, we do not know the duration of the police custody.
The rally in support of the Uprisings of the Earth, the collective dissolved by the government which is to be held in Niort this evening is maintained, but the demonstrators are called to gather in front of the gendarmerie of Deux-Sèvres as a sign of support for the two guards at seen.
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