Lisle-sur-Tarn (France) (AFP) – The favorable farmers water storage project Sivens (Tarn) accentuated Monday blockade of the site occupied by the zadistes, five days of the review the General Council of the Tarn alternative options buried initial project.
“There is a sense of frustration, we want to put pressure on the state to release the site for an end to this zone of lawlessness, “insisted on site Roland Legrand, President of the Young Farmers of the Tarn.
One hundred farmers in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne neighbor, supported by members FDSEA of Aveyron, began Monday morning blocking both access the site and take turns “all week,” he promised.
zadistes, themselves, feel “victims of kidnapping.” They call for a Wednesday rally in the town of Gaillac, the main town of the area about twenty miles away, in sight “of a food convoy” to the Zad.
They also want a gathering Friday at Albi to the General Council of the Tarn, to be held to arbitrate between two preferred solutions by experts – a lighter version of the dam, located 330 m upstream or three selected smaller side
. The tension is rising a notch this weekend between the two sides around a barricade set up by the zadistes at the crossroads of the D999, in the countryside. It was destroyed and rebuilt three times before being destroyed Sunday morning and “one or two punches were exchanged Saturday,” according to police.
To avoid any further risk of confrontation, hundreds gendarmes have once again created a device separating farmers from environmental activists on the site since October 2013.
No incidents had been reported early Monday afternoon.
Farmers and pro-dam zadistes camped on their position: the first call for the immediate evacuation of the occupants of the site -in accordance with court decisions taken in February-and environmental activists have told the press that they “would not leave before total abandonment of the”
-. A social issue –
“This is a social issue before an agricultural issue,” told AFP the president of the FDSEA of Aveyron Dominique Faye, present on the site. “We can no longer see these anti-block everything all projects,” he added.
Since the initial draft was rejected in mid-January by the Minister Ségolène Royal’s ecology, none of the proposed alternatives satisfies both parties.
“If it seems acted that the initial project is abandoned, the fact remains that the two alternative scenarios proposed remain unacceptable, “believe their website zadistes the collective” As long as there are boiled. “
To them,” these two projects overstate water requirements, continue to serve the interests of local authorities and remain in a logic of destruction. “
The pro-dam farmers believe conversely that” nothing is excluded Friday, the initial project was simply suspended “despite statements Ms. Royal. She had felt on January 16 that “the completion of the initial project was no longer relevant.”
The decision to suspend the project was taken after the death of young environmentalist Rémi Fraisse on site following the jet by the police of an offensive grenade on October 26.
Pierre Vincens, a neighboring farmer came to support the pro-dam, esteem needs to “at least 650,000 cubic meters water to support 80 small farms. ” “It is essential to build a dam on the original site and have the opportunity to enlarge the basis of future water needs,” he said.
Ms Royal had indicated that the expulsion of opponents of the project would not intervene before the General Council decides the fate of water storage project, a period subsequently confirmed by the prefect of the Tarn, Thierry Gentilhomme.
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