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The Élysée's blunder on the Earth Uprisings revives the anger of peasants

2024-02-23T18:34:38.950Z

Highlights: The Élysée's blunder on the Earth Uprisings revives the anger of peasants. “The Earth Uprising movement is throwing Molotov cocktails at the police and destroying farmers' property,” says Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA. The leader of the agricultural union refers to the events of October 2022 and spring 2023, when activists from this environmental association advocating civil disobedience had ransacked megabasins. Who can imagine that the conditions for dialogue are met under these conditions?


DECRYPTION - The Minister of Agriculture himself dissociated himself from the invitation launched by Emmanuel Macron to the environmental association, judging it “inappropriate given the context”.


By inviting the Earth Uprisings to participate in the great debate called for by Emmanuel Macron for the opening of the Agricultural Show, the Élysée has added fuel to the fire of agricultural anger.

“The Earth Uprising movement is throwing Molotov cocktails at the police and destroying farmers' property,”

says Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA.

Who can imagine that the conditions for dialogue are met under these conditions?

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The leader of the agricultural union refers to the events of October 2022 and spring 2023, when activists from this environmental association advocating civil disobedience had ransacked megabasins, these water reserves intended for irrigation of crops, in both -Sèvres.

Described as

“ecoterrorist”

by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the organization also violently attacked the gendarmes who protected these sites.

In June 2023, the tenant of Place Beauvau had taken…

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Source: lefigaro

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