“This is only the first round.
We hope to stop work in the coming days.
We have to win the battle here if we want to avoid this danger everywhere else on the territory, ”suggests Julien Le Guet, spokesperson for the Bassines Non Merci collective (BNM).
Several hundred opponents and trade unionists of the Confédération paysanne invaded and stopped this Wednesday the construction site of a replacement reserve located in Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, in Deux-Sèvres.
All denounce an "ecocidal project" and intended to mark the occasion when these works have just started.
Fifteen other structures intended for intensive irrigation of crops could be built nearby.
But all administrative appeals have not yet been judged, remind the anti-basins.
"It is a forceful passage of the State, a privatization of water for the benefit of a single devastating agricultural model", pleads Nicolas Girod, spokesperson for the Confédération paysanne.
"One basin built, three destroyed"
“At this stage, legally, nothing stands in the way of the realization of seven reservations (
out of 16)
.
This is a useful, measured and concerted project on the scale of the Marais Poitevin ”, retorts Emmanuel Aubry, the prefect of Deux-Sèvres who dispatched significant gendarmerie resources to Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon on Wednesday. .
“Scientific discourse is no longer enough to convince… Yet we are continually being told the truths about climate change.
So we must take action, ”explains Mona, a farmer who came especially from Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
If the work continues, Julien Le Guet promises, him, a new mobilization of size and "a process of dismantling.
One basin built, three destroyed ”.
