A judicial investigation was opened following a complaint filed by the national secretary of EELV Marine Tondelier, whose trip had been disrupted by an agricultural union in the Lot-et-Garonne at the end of March, we learned Thursday from the Agen prosecutor's office.
The judicial investigation against X targets facts of "concerted obstacles to freedom of assembly and freedom of speech," said the public prosecutor in Agen, Olivier Naboulet, to an AFP correspondent.
Blocked and insulted
On March 28 in Marmande, a few days after the demonstration against the "megabasins" in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), dozens of activists of the Rural Coordination (CR 47), the majority agricultural union in the Lot-et-Garonne, had disrupted the beginning of a two-day trip by Marine Tondelier in this department.
The day before, the union had warned that the leader of the Greens was "not welcome", after having "sown violence, hatred and desolation" by participating in the rally of Sainte-Soline, organized to protest against the digging of giant water reservoirs for agricultural irrigation purposes and marked by violent clashes between demonstrators and police.
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In Marmande, nearly 200 activists had waited for the environmental leader as she got off the train. Despite the protection of gendarmes and plainclothes police, she was only able to advance a few dozen meters, before being blocked and insulted by activists of the agricultural union who threatened to throw slurry at her. She had turned back.
In her complaint filed at the end of April, Marine Tondelier targets CR 47 officials including the president of the Departmental Chamber of Agriculture, Serge Bousquet-Cassagne. "During the 48 hours of her presence in the department, she was prevented from moving freely and participating in the demonstrations that were initially planned," said the complaint seen by AFP.
