Wilfried Devillers (in Sainte-Soline), edited by Laura Laplaud 10:57 a.m., November 02, 2022
In Sainte-Soline in Deux-Sèvres, three days after the mobilization against the mega-basin project, activists promise new mobilizations if the excavation site were to resume.
So faced with possible militant actions, the government, which has deployed an important security system, keeps him in the area.
Europe 1 went there.
Will the showdown take place in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres?
The security system around the mega-basins project is impressive.
The opponents, who temporarily retreated, promised to return to prevent the resumption of the construction site.
The government obviously does not hear it that way and has deployed 1,000 gendarmes on the spot.
From now on, Sainte-Soline looks like an entrenched camp.
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A site patrolled by the gendarmerie
The mega-basin construction site is patrolled by mobile gendarmerie units.
By late Tuesday, six vans were positioned all around the area.
Foot patrols also made rounds, day and night.
To pass nearby, you have to show your credentials, as Véronique explains.
"When we enter the basin area, we are checked, we are prevented from passing, we have to make a detour. But hey, we take the fold."
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"We are not savages"
A security device on the site, but also in the village, also the scene of clashes between militants and the police last weekend.
Since then, a patrol watches a few steps from the Church and others regularly cross the town under the dumbfounded eyes of Jacqueline.
"A small village like that, there are more gendarmes than people and animals... Don't mess around," she sneers.
"We are not savages either and then we have the right to demonstrate, we are free, aren't we?"
The ban on demonstrations, imposed in the area by the Deux-Sèvres prefecture, extends until Wednesday.