🌱 Ecologists clash with police in Sainte Soline, France

While thousands of police are deployed in Saint-Soline, the first clashes took place with the demonstrators at midday. this Saturday, March 25. In fact, after several speeches on Saturday morning, around 6,000 people, according to the organizers and the prefecture, left on foot around 11 a.m. to try to reach the Sainte-Soline site, in Deux-Sévres.

“The goal is to approach and surround the basin to stop the construction site ,” a member of the Uprisings of the Earth. When they arrived, they found a particularly muscular device with in particular police officers on quads using tear gas.

More than 3,000 police forces mobilized on one side, while up to 10,000 people are around Sainte-Soline, where one of these reservoirs dedicated to agricultural irrigation is under construction, five months after a previous rally marred by clashes.