The violence was feared, it was finally confirmed.
Saturday, the demonstration - prohibited - which was held in Sainte-Soline to protest against the megabasins degenerated into violent clashes, injuring both the police and the demonstrators.
A handful of elected Nupes had also made the trip to support the movement.
Mobilized that day, the rebellious MP Clémence Guetté now announces that she wants to create a parliamentary commission of inquiry "
on the choices that have been made for the maintenance of order
".
“
I am not here to condemn, I am not a prosecutor, there will be justice
”, first let the elected LFI know on RTL Monday morning, at the mention of the excesses also emanating from the demonstrators.
“
I regret that there are injured on the demonstrators side because they were just there to demonstrate, and I regret that there are injuries on the side of the police because they just responded to an order”
, she continued.
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For Clémence Guetté, the arrival of violent, even armed demonstrators, does not justify that the day took such a turn.
It is indeed the doctrine of maintaining order which, according to her
, "endangered thousands of people who came peacefully
".
“
Because people potentially come with weapons and danger, we shoot in the crowd?
Is that the French policing doctrine now?
It is absolutely unreasonable
, ”said the chosen one.
Evoking "
the feeling
" on the spot "
of being in a scene of war
", facing a police who would have been ordered to defend the future mega-basin "
whatever the cost
".
The deputy also defended the presence of rebellious deputies and environmentalists, despite the ban on the gathering.
"
It was important for us to be there as parliamentarians because the cause that is defended there is just
," she explained, specifying "
to fight for the right to water
".
And to insist: “
We were not there by chance.
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