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One hundred and fifty zadistes now live in peace in the former “zone to defend”, more than five years after the abandonment of the airport project. LOIC VENANCE/AFP
REPORT – The Earth Uprisings were born three years ago on these long feverish lands, 20 kilometers north of Nantes.
A “targeted” police operation on a scale never seen for months on the former ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Between 60 and 70 gendarmes, CRS and members of the BRI, supported by a helicopter, intervened this Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. With, as a result, 6 arrests linked to the radical environmentalist collective the Uprisings of the Earth (SLT), dissolved by decree in the Council of Ministers this Wednesday. A decision contested by the movement’s lawyers.
One hundred and fifty zadistes now live in peace in the former “zone to defend”, more than five years after the abandonment of the airport project, having signed 29 leases with the Loire-Atlantique department for agricultural projects – to which are added 26 others with “historic” farmers.
“The hooded police, the ram, the arrests in front of the children… all that is to divide us, to discourage us by playing on this criminalizing image of ‘eco-terrorist’”, denounces Rosa, a resident of the former ZAD. Sat…