No conviction in sight for the environmentalist leader. No conviction was sought against the national secretary of the ecologists Marine Tondelier, who appeared on Friday in Narbonne, after complaints of defamation brought by two winemakers from the Aude.
On 12 June 2023, Marine Tondelier and environmentalist MP Sandrine Rousseau were attacked by angry Aude winemakers who wanted to prevent them from accessing a wine estate to meet activists.
“I came to the Aude to support the opponents of the Fontiers-Cabardès golf course project (…) When I got out of the car, I saw tractors blocked and things ready to burn (…) I was insulted, treated like bitch, go make soup! », declared Marine Tondelier at the helm. “Sandrine Rousseau didn’t understand anything. I told him: They don’t want us to enter Robert’s house, they burned down his barn “he added.
According to Marine Tondelier’s lawyer, Tewfik Bouzenoune, she said that “they burned” in general. This “they” meant “us” and did not accuse anyone in particular, according to him. However, this statement by Marine Tondelier and the publication on her Twitter account (now
“The day after the broadcast, I was stopped on the street and asked: Was it you who burned down the cellar? We are faced with people who master communication. And my image? “, declared one of the two winemakers. “I have even been called an arsonist”, explained the second complainant, who “thinks he is defending a just cause, that of Aude viticulture”. “I will never go and burn the cellar of a winemaker,” he added.
For public prosecutor Éric Camous, who did not ask for a conviction, “fixing the cursor is difficult, it will determine what a political person can say.” The criminal court will pronounce the sentence on November 29.
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