2023-08-20 18:04:46
A few bits of lawn torn off, tags, a broken pipe… In a golf course in Vienne, on the sidelines of the “Water Convoy”, a traveling procession of opponents of mega-basins, the police were able to observe several facts voluntary degradation. An investigation has been opened, we learned from a source close to the investigations.
According to the video surveillance images consulted, at midday, about fifteen individuals, some even wearing hoods, entered this golf course located in Beaumont-Saint-Cyr, 20 km northeast of Poitiers, and damaged the lawn.
The Vienne prefecture posted pictures of these degradations on Twitter, accompanied by slogans such as “100 days to dry you out” or “#Water convoy”. We could also distinguish a logo of the Uprisings of the Earth, a collective which co-organizes the procession and whose dissolution pronounced by the government has been suspended in court.
“The word ”degradation” seems quite strong to me”
After checks, the gendarmes let the convoy go, which was to bivouac on Sunday evening in Coussay-les-Bois (Vienne), about thirty kilometers from Beaumont-Saint-Cyr.
In a message posted on Twitter, the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau castigated Sunday those who “degrade, destroy, ransack”. “There will never be any dialogue possible with those who intend to impose their law by violence,” he wrote. “Political ecology must position itself clearly in the face of radicalism and the use of violence,” also reacted Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA.
“The word ‘degradation’ seems quite strong to me, it was rather people who entered the golf course who were able to use the water to cool off”, against a background of high heat, a door-keeper told AFP. word of the Bassines Non Merci collective, which is co-organizing the convoy.
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