• After Saturday's attack on a train carrying wheat by environmental activists, an investigation was opened by the Lorient prosecutor's office.

  • The damage is estimated at two million euros with nearly 1,400 tonnes of wheat destroyed.

  • The punch action of the activists, who intended to denounce intensive agriculture, was condemned from all sides.

Their punch action sparked a wave of outrage.

Saturday morning, around fifty environmental activists attacked a freight train carrying several hundred tonnes of wheat at a level crossing in the town of Saint-Gérand near Pontivy (Morbihan).

Dressed in overalls, and for some in masks and hoods, the activists of the collective "Brittany against factory farms" first climbed a low wall of breeze blocks across the railway line before trying to board the train which took over the management of a nearby factory manufacturing animal feed.

"They then opened the valves of the container wagons and thus poured tons of wheat onto the tracks while the perpetrators fled," said the Lorient prosecutor's office on Monday in a press release.

According to prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger, the damage is around two million euros.

In total, 1,390 tons of wheat were destroyed, "rendered unsuitable for any destination".

“An unacceptable situation in a period of major international tensions, while shortages are increasing around the world”, denounces the prosecution.

After the filing of several complaints, an investigation, entrusted to the research brigade of the Pontivy gendarmerie, was opened for "obstructing the start or circulation of a train" and "damage to private property".

“Green terrorism”, according to the president of the FNSEA

The action of activists opposed to intensive agriculture has been condemned from all sides.

The prefecture of Morbihan thus denounced a "scandalous act of food waste at the very moment when France must consolidate its food production capacity in a difficult international context".

Saturday evening, the Minister of Agriculture also tweeted to denounce an act "simply unacceptable and totally irresponsible".

“Destroying cereal production when many countries are short of it at the moment… it's distressing.

Justice must pass, ”wrote Julien Denormandie.

Same story on the side of Christiane Lambert, president of the FNSEA, who said she was “scandalized” by this action.

"It's eco-terrorism or green terrorism, I don't even know what to call it," she said on the

RMC

set .

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“An act of scandalous food waste”… The attack on a freight train condemned on all sides

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