The Minister of the Interior has not resumed his expression, strongly criticized on the left and without judicial reality to date.
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come to defend his orientation and programming law of the Ministry of the Interior (LOPMI) before the members of the National Assembly Commission, Wednesday, November 2, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, did not once again pronounce the word controversy of the weekend, “eco-terrorism”, used to qualify the clashes of Holy Soline (Deux-Sèvres) between the police and demonstrators opposed to the megabassins, these substitution reserves intended for agricultural irrigation.
“We are talking about a demonstration (…) and surely no eco -rorism”, attacked the deputy Thomas Portes (La France Insoumise, Seine-Saint-Denis), stressing that this “notion does not exist in law French “and questioning:” Are you going to withdraw your words? “The Minister of the Interior, who did not wish to answer” a provocation “, said above all concerned about the fate of the injured gendarmes. “This demonstration was prohibited (…), he replied. I am proud of the way the gendarmes behaved” face “with stones, with Molotov cocktails, with piles. “
This not said retropedalation was taken up by the government spokesperson Olivier Véran, interviewed after the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, who made “a global response”, and “avoided knowingly The semantic commentary “on the word” eco -racing “.
The formula, which raised a wave of indignation to the left of the political spectrum, leaves the specialists of terrorism to say the least skeptical. In fact, “eco -racing” does not exist at the time it is. It should be noted that the national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) has never required, to date, the opening of judicial information in cases of 5G telephone relay attacks or EDF premises, which could have been take place in a recent past. All these offenses were processed by ordinary justice.
Questioned, the PNAT points out that “for facts to be legally qualified as terrorists and that [he] can seize, it is necessary to provide proof of the existence of a company whose aim is to seriously disturb public order by intimidation or terror “. In the case of the demonstration against the megabassine of Holy Soline, the notions of “intimidation” or “terror” against the population seem difficult to sustain, even if the police were very violently taken to part.
As for the “40 S files” which would have been identified, according to the Minister of the Interior, among the demonstrators, a file S is only an instrument of vigilance – and not a status – which aims for some 10,000 people in France. The government’s tendency to criminalize the environmental protest is clear: Alternatiba Poitiers, an association which trains in civil disobedience and militates against megabassins, was opposed the law against separatism by the prefect of Vienne, in order to prevent from affecting public subsidies in recent months.
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