In Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon (Deux-Sèvres), a conflict opposes the partisans and the anti “basins”, that is to say 19 reserves of substitution intended for the massive and continuous irrigation of agricultural lands of the Marais Poitevin.
After a new demonstration which degenerated into clashes, this Saturday, the deputy Delphine Batho sent an open letter to the Minister of Agriculture, report our colleagues from
The New Republic
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"The Ministry [of Agriculture] has clearly given instructions to make Deux-Sèvres an example and a propaganda operation of your anti-ecological agricultural policy," said Delphine Batho in her letter.
The deputy regretted a "significant change in the position of the State which has gone out of its role by disregarding respect for the protocol".
"A local referendum on the position of the State"
Faced with this "disastrous balance of power logic for our territory", Delphine Batho asked the Minister of Agriculture to put an end to this "infernal spiral" by stopping the work of the basins but also by launching "a local referendum on the State's position on this project ”.
Water basin projects are the subject of debate even within the peasant world, some believing that they benefit only a minority of farmers and only one operating model.
I strongly condemn these degradations.
Justice will have to be done.
Nothing justifies such degradations.
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- Julien Denormandie (@J_Denormandie) November 6, 2021
For his part, the Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, condemned this Sunday the degradations committed during the last demonstration.
Three gendarmes were injured and a tank was damaged during the rally.
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