Deux-Sèvres: Sandrine Rousseau defends “disobedience without violence”

Europe 1 with AFP 1:05 p.m., October 30, 2022

EELV deputy Sandrine Rousseau, present on Saturday at a prohibited demonstration by opponents of a "mega-basin" site for agricultural irrigation in Deux-Sèvres, explained that she supports "disobedience without violence, especially when it comes to ecology".

"These projects send us into the wall"

"I think it's good that there are activists occupying the land - here, in this case, it's private land, so they (do it) with the agreement of the person who owns it. ground - to mean that these projects send us into the wall and that in fact, they put us all in danger", argued the parliamentarian on Sunday on BFMTV.

About sixty gendarmes according to the Ministry of the Interior, and about fifty demonstrators according to the collective "Bassines non merci", were injured on Saturday during the demonstration, in violence attributed by the prefecture to radical activists.

"We are reaching the limits of the planet"

According to Ms. Rousseau, the demonstrators "defend the idea that we can no longer continue this liberal, capitalist system: we are reaching the limits of the planet, that's what they say and I say: 'they are right to say, we are at the limit of our system, we will no longer be able to act'".