- Two 25-year-old men were arrested in Contes (Alpes-Maritimes) by gendarmes who suspect them of having degraded a relay antenna.
- The installation, at the beginning of May, of this antenna is the object of a strong opposition on behalf of inhabitants of the commune which fear the harmful effects of 5 G on health.
- For several months, degradations of relay antennas have multiplied in France. The gendarmerie created a specific cell to coordinate the investigations carried out by the sections and research brigades.
21 meters high, the 5G relay antenna was only installed at the beginning of May on private land in the Castellar district, in Contes (Alpes-Maritimes). But it has already been degraded at least twice. The gendarmes of the Marseille research section and the Nice research brigade, for several days, discreetly monitored the premises. And they arrested, on the night of June 16 to 17, a little before midnight, two 25-year-old men who were trying to break into the site. The suspects were to be indicted this Thursday for "degradation of electrical equipment" and placed under judicial supervision, indicates to 20 minutes the prosecutor of the Republic of Nice, Xavier Bonhomme, clarifying that their motivation does not seem "political".
In police custody, they also admitted to having entered the site on June 15 in order to put fans out of use. On the other hand, they denied their implications in the other facts for which an investigation was opened. On April 30, at the construction site, which had been delayed due to the confinement, workers discovered that cables had been cut. A complaint has been made. A few days later, on May 12, when the antenna had just been installed, a new intrusion on the site was reported, but no damage was noted. The criminal identification technicians of the gendarmerie were dispatched to the site to carry out surveys and a surveillance device was put in place.
Local opposition on the air
This series of degradations occurs in a tense local context, many residents being opposed to the installation of this antenna, like the former mayor of the town. "The Castellar site is not at all suitable for the installation of this type of 5G relay antennas," explained Francis Tujague last January in Nice-Matin . "It's a whole neighborhood and its surroundings, that is to say several hundred residents who find themselves impacted by this nuisance located 50 meters from the nearest dwellings," he added, stressing that the town hall's arguments were above all "town planning and not sanitary, even if we have the right to ask serious questions on the subject ”.
Several residents have joined together in a collective called NARF (No to the Free Relay antenna). The petition they put online has collected more than 2,300 signatures. “The dangerousness of the waves emitted by this equipment no longer needs to be demonstrated. Numerous studies indeed attest to their harmfulness on our organisms ”, write its authors who ask“ the application of the precautionary principle ”and the displacement of this antenna“ towards a more appropriate place ”. Their opposition is all the stronger since "this is an installation for 3G, 4G and 5G". However, they say, "doctors and researchers are warning about the danger of 5G".
Anti 5G, members of the ultra-left…
For some time, opponents of this technology have no longer hesitated to attack relay antennas, as was the case in Great Britain last April. In France, two men suspected of having set fire to a telephone relay in Foncine-le-Haut (Jura) were arrested in late May. One of them, who admitted the facts in police custody, explained "having been convinced of the harmful nature of 5G for the environment because of the power of their radiation after consulting [sites]", reported the public prosecutor of Lons-le-Saunier in a press release. The other, who described himself as a "conspirator", said "being against 5G which he accused of causing damage to the environment".
The central territorial intelligence service has identified dozens of similar facts since the beginning of April. If these acts are almost always unclaimed, they often bear the signature of "the most radical elements of radical protest movements", the police noted in a note revealed by Le Parisien . Near Grenoble, five pieces of equipment were destroyed between March 29 and May 18. There too, the public prosecutor, Eric Vaillant, favors the track of “the ultra-left anarcho libertarian” because of “the important list of degradations by fires attributable to this movement committed in the Grenoble agglomeration” since March 2017 , as he recently told 20 Minutes .
Coordinate investigations
A large part of the investigations concerning the destruction of relay antennas are dealt with by the gendarmerie, which is competent in the rural areas where they are often installed. To coordinate the investigations carried out by the research sections and brigades, it created a specific cell called "Oracle". This structure is also interested in "gendarmerie attacks" or "institutional buildings", which are often suspected members of the ultra-left, says a source familiar with the matter. The files it processes are selected according to several criteria: "The type of attacks, the operating mode, the presence near the place of commission of the acts of people who belong to a certain movement", continues our source.
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