EVENT “The peasant mobilization is to go beyond expectations,” said an organizer …
The protest against the airport project of Notre-Dame-des-Landes was full on Saturday. According to organizers, it brought together Saturday 20,000 people on the Nantes ring, police advancing the figure of 7,200 protesters.
“The peasant mobilization is to go beyond expectations,” commented Julien Durand, spokesman for the ACIPA, the main opponents of association of Nantes airport project. “It’s Francois Hollande today to acknowledge the extraordinary mobilization in Nantes (…). We need the process (judicial) evictions stops before Wednesday “when a hearing is scheduled in Nantes calling for the expulsion of fifteen inhabitants of the site planned for the project.
mobilization is in any case the strongest since the demonstration on February 22, 2014, when at least 20,000 people gathered in the city center of Nantes. But unlike the rally which had resulted in damage and clashes with security forces, Saturday’s demonstration took place in a friendly atmosphere, with “a large banquet” organized the mid-way borrowed usually by car.
Traffic disrupted on the device
The traffic was disrupted on the device but also the access to the nearby airport of Nantes Atlantique. The demonstration was not to win the city center, a “deliberate choice” of the organizers to avoid the recurrence of violence in 2014. The organizers have planned to call to the dispersion from 15:30, while rain is expected on region
Nantes. Getting around on Saturdays device with the event
Behind a banner “Neither deportation or trial,” the demonstrators converged the sound of drums to the bridge Cheviré, an imposing work, windswept, which spans the Loire River downstream from the city center. Among the crowd, protesters of all ages, most with big jackets, shoes and woolen caps, and for a hike on highway. Protesters waved flags and placards that read “No to deportation, yes to the peasants” or “Neither expulsion or trial.”
Arm wrestling for 15 years
Wednesday, Aéroports du Grand Ouest (AGO), a subsidiary of the Vinci group and the future airport concessionaire intends to apply to the High Court of Nantes immediate eviction of 11 families and four farmers, along with a daily penalty of 200 1,000 euros and a sequestration of their property and livestock if they do not comply.
This new mobilization of opponents at the airport for 15 years engaged in a criminal iron arm in addition to an occupation on the ground, made more than two months after the announcement, on October 30, a stimulus “2016″ of the project, after approval by the Nantes Administrative Court of prefectural orders authorizing the beginning the work.
As for the project’s supporters, the association “Wings for West ‘submitted that, unlike the fifteen occupants facing eviction, 260 other residents accepted the compensation procedures. “The event in full state of emergency is a real provocation of people who reject the democratic decisions and judgments,” accuses Alain Mustière in a statement, the president of the association.
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