“What did these thugs want to do on the spot? They wanted to install a ZAD”, assures this Sunday morning the Minister of the Interior on Europe 1. “If the gendarmes had not been there, not only would the farmers have had their tool of destruction destroyed, there would have been a ZAD and you would have said (…) the State is not capable of being respected”, added Gérald Darmanin.
The former mayor of Tourcoing is clear on this point, his objective was to “avoid redoing Notre-Dame-des-Landes, which was a political scandal which affected the authority of the State. “When violence, thugs and the ultra-left get involved, then it is the duty of the police to say stop,” he said in an interview with the JDD, returning to the violent clashes between law enforcement and anti-basin activists in Sainte-Soline.
“anti-ZAD” cells
“In Sainte-Soline, as in certain wild demonstrations, it was not policing: it was guerrilla warfare,” added the tenant of Place Beauvau. Criticizing the “lack of firmness” of part of the political class, he assured that “it’s over: no more ZAD will settle in our country. Neither in Sainte-Soline nor elsewhere”.
An “anti-ZAD” cell, with “specialized lawyers” should see the light of day on September 1st.