A man in his sixties, who was taking part in the weekend of mobilization of “anti-basins” at La Rochénard (Deux-Sèvres), would have succumbed to a malaise in the night from Saturday to Sunday, we learned from the authorities and the organizers.
The 60-year-old, participating in the “Printemps maraîchin”, a mobilization of opponents of a vast agricultural irrigation project in the Marais poitevin, “died following an illness during the night, the firefighters intervened very quickly on the spot. were unable to resuscitate him,” the Deux-Sèvres prefecture said on Sunday.
He was sleeping in a truck around the site
According to Julien Le Guet, spokesman for the Bassines Non Merci collective, organizer of this mobilization combining demonstrations, debates and parties from Friday to Sunday, the man who “slept in a truck around the site, came back to breathe a little without manifest his discomfort to anyone, and fell from a chair around a brazier”, around 4 a.m. Sunday. Participants practiced first aid, in vain, before the arrival of firefighters.
The day before, a demonstration of opposition to the projects of “mega-basins”, these giant water reserves dedicated to agricultural irrigation, had brought together between 5,000, according to the prefecture, and 7,000 people, according to organizers. Clashes between gendarmes and demonstrators punctuated the mobilization, without causing any injuries.