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“
Why would a president of a chamber of agriculture decide who has the right to come and go on a territory
?
“, protested the ecologist Marine Tondelier, national secretary of Europe Ecology The Greens.
Despite threats and invective, especially from the president of the Lot-et-Garonne chamber of agriculture, the farmer Serge Bousquet-Chassagne, the elected official went to the department on March 28, to meet elected officials there. and activists.
Despite the warning from the mayor of Marmande and state services who advised him to cancel his trip, the elected opposition EELV in Hénin-Beaumont, a city in the hands of the National Rally, decided to maintain his visit. , declaring to be "
an environmentalist, free and determined
", who has "
no intention of [se] being intimidated by nags
".
On the spot, no clash was deplored, but manure was dumped in several places by the farmers.
A few days later, the elected environmentalists of the New Aquitaine region reacted by opposing the financial support of the Lot-et-Garonne chamber of agriculture by the regional council, deploring "the explicit threats of the president of this
chamber of agriculture against Marine Tondelier (...) as well as the demonstrations of hostility organized during her visit and the encouragement to intimidate the elected officials of this department who received her
".
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A “hostile territory” to environmentalists
"
You can't write just anything, especially on the letterhead of a chamber of agriculture, a public establishment subject to the supervision of the public authorities
", explained Marine Tondelier after her hectic trip to the region.
A press release signed by Serge Bousquet-Chassagne indeed mentioned a "
firm response
" from the Chamber of Agriculture towards "
all those who decide to receive the enemies of the peasants
", explaining that "
the territory is hostile
" to ecologists, even calling the department a “
fief
”.
“
We cannot financially support people who have these kinds of methods.
The president of the chamber of agriculture has clearly encouraged farmers and hunters to violent acts and intolerable damage
,” explains Christine Seguinau, co-president of the environmental group in the region.
These elected officials also recall that the president of the Lot-et-Garonne Chamber of Agriculture "
was
sentenced on appeal, in January 2022, for the illegal construction of a water reservoir,
Lake Caussade
".
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“I have always condemned the violence”
Refusing to remove the financing of this public establishment, the region explains that
"the president of the chamber cannot be confused with the chamber of agriculture of Lot-et-Garonne, its principals (all the farmers of Lot-et-Garonne ), his colleagues (all agricultural bodies), his staff, his agricultural development actions
”.
The region does not wish to "
take hostage the beneficiaries of these development actions
", and recalls that it is an establishment "
under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture
", whose supervision must be implemented by the prefect.
Targeting environmentalists, the region considers it "
surprising to invoke the law
" regarding the illegal construction of a water reservoir in the Lot-et-Garonne, "
when one participates, moreover as elected officials, in
prohibited demonstrations which degenerate
into physical attacks on the police
", evoking without quoting them the clashes which occurred in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres, around the disputed construction of mega-reservoirs of water.
“
I have always condemned violence against the police as well as against demonstrators
,” explains Marine Tondelier, however.
An affirmation to which Serge Bousquet-Chassagne would have replied "
me,