Jacques Serais, edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez 7:44 p.m., October 30, 2022

The mobilization continues in Sainte-Soline, where 2,000 demonstrators remain on site and set up a base.

After the violent clashes on Saturday, the activists intend to stay to denounce the "mega-basin" project, under construction in the town.

Already today, the subject has obviously become political.

The subject of "megabasins" crystallizes the debates in France.

After the clashes against the police on Saturday, 2,000 environmental activists still occupy land near the site of one of these water retentions.

This Sunday, they cut pipes at the edge of the Sainte-Soline site in Deux-Sèvres with a grinder.

A situation that agitates, on the spot as in the political sphere.

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"These projects send us into the wall"

Sainte-Soline turns to the political battle.

On the left, it is Sandrine Rousseau who steps up to defend the occupants of this land, and almost goes so far as to endorse the violence of some in view of the deployment of the police.

“The way we keep the peace plays a role in exacerbating the violence,” she explained.

"There were LBD shots: why such a deployment of police for just an environmental demonstration? I think it is good that there are activists occupying the ground to mean that these projects are sending us into the wall."

A project validated locally, however, by all the authorities.

Sunday morning, it was François-Xavier Bellamy who reacted during the Grand Rendez-Vous on Europe 1: "They are the symptom that a certain left, a certain drift from political ecology which finally renounces the very principles of democracy and civic life," said the MEP.

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“We are not in a totalitarian state”

On site, 1,700 police and gendarmes have been mobilized since Saturday.

A political question now arises: why are the demonstrators not being dislodged?

and “When we ban a demonstration after people take their responsibilities, said the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau, guest of Pierre de Vilno on Europe 1. “We are not in a totalitarian state.

We are not in China and we are not in Russia.

With us, there are rules of law that apply and that is the strength of a democracy."

A democracy therefore, at the risk that after Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a new ZAD settles in Sainte-Soline.