Three environmental protection associations have been attacked by farmers in the last 24 hours, the France Nature Environnement (FNE) movement, which supervises them, reported this Wednesday, November 27.
In Gap, in the High Alps, protesters boarded up the FNE 05 premises on Wednesday, while employees and volunteers were inside, said FNE president Antoine Gatet.
Complaints filed
This Tuesday in La Mancha, activists from the Rural Coordination threw tires and manure at the premises of the Manche Nature association in Coutances, with a sign “Leave us alone.”
Likewise, in Châteauroux, in Indre, about thirty protesters under FNSEA flags threw straw in front of the premises of the Indre Nature association. When the employees took refuge upstairs, the farmers riding in the tractor baskets hit the shutters and tried to lift them, according to the FNE.
The complaints were presented on Tuesday in both cases and will be presented on Thursday in the Gap case, the association’s management indicated.
“This violence is intolerable in a rule of law,” the FNE protested in a press release. They are committed by “individuals and organizations who believe themselves above the law and commit these acts under the union flag, under the watchful eye of police forces who do not intervene,” the association continued.
The majority alliance FNSEA-Young Farmers, after a first week of mobilization dedicated mainly to opposition to the proposed free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur, launched this week throughout France new actions aimed more particularly at “anything that hamper the lives of farmers. , in particular administrations (prefectures, water agencies, etc.).
“We work very well with certain agricultural unions, with certain producers,” declared Antoine Gatet. “But there is another opposite agriculture, industrial agriculture, Mercosur agriculture, against which we are fighting because it is driving us against a wall from an environmental and climatic point of view.”
“We are the first to defend freedom of demonstration and expression, but it does not imply threats, violence or hate speech,” he stressed. “Imagine three young environmental activists starting to do the same thing. We denounce the double standards that are applied to the detriment of environmental associations,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
