2023-06-21 11:37:04
After weeks of declarations, the dissolution of the collective of the Uprisings of the Earth (SLT) was pronounced this Wednesday morning in the Council of Ministers.
“It is not freedom of expression or demonstration that is in question. (…) It is the repeated use of violence against property and people” that is sanctioned, commented government spokesman Olivier Véran after the meeting. “Recourse to violence is not legitimate in a state of law”.
“I have decided to initiate the dissolution of the Uprisings of the Earth, which I will propose after contradictory to a next Council of Ministers”, announced the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on March 28, accusing the group, which had just organize demonstrations against the mega basins of Sainte-Soline, “to call for an insurrection”.
The procedure ends after a new demonstration supported, although prohibited, by SLT this weekend, against the Lyon-Turin rail link, marked by scuffles. “No cause justifies injuring police and gendarmes,” argued Darmanin Tuesday in the Assembly.
The movement immediately denounced against “a very political and particularly worrying dissolution demanded directly from the Head of State by the agro-industry and the FNSEA”. “Trying to silence the Earth Uprisings is a vain attempt to break the thermometer rather than worry about the temperature,” SLT lamented again, announcing dozens of support rallies this Wednesday evening. Personalities such as director Cyril Dion, publisher Hugues Jallon or political scientist Françoise Vergès must also come and express their support before the Council of State at 5 p.m.
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tomorrow (21/06) and/or 28/06In support of those arrested and against the dissolution of the Uprisings.
The government has decided to muzzle and repress the environmental movement. He won’t make it ????
— The Earth Uprisings (@lesoulevements) June 20, 2023
The collective, born in January 2021 in the former ZAD (zone to defend) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, is not a legally formed association. More radical than the traditional environmental struggle, they do not hesitate to take spectacular and sometimes violent action.
An appeal to the Council of State, as an administrative law jurisdiction, is possible. “We will go to court and believe in the possibility of a legal victory to overturn this iniquitous decision, as has been the case for other dissolutions for political reasons in recent years”, assure the Uprisings.
This dissolution is also denounced by part of the left. LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard defended “peaceful citizens worried about the terrible consequences of climate inaction”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise, regretted that the activists were “repressed like terrorists that they are not” judging that they should be “listened to”. The leader of environmentalists Marine Tondelier considered for her part that it was “a political decision” falling within “a broader movement of criminalization of environmentalists”.
The Confédération paysanne, for its part, judged that the dissolution represented “a direct attack on freedom of expression, opinion, association, demonstration, human rights, the rights to water and food and environmental rights”.
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