The LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis did not appreciate the expression of the Minister of the Interior. This Monday, Clémentine Autain described as an “insult”, the word “eco-terrorism” that Gérald Darmanin used to depict the actions of demonstrators gathered in Deux-Sèvres to fight against a project of vast detention of water.
“Eco-terrorism is an insult to environmental activists, it is an insult to the victims of terrorism to associate the word terrorism with ecology”, indignantly elected, denouncing a “screen of smoke” intended to mask the “content of the fight”. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denounced Sunday evening “eco-terrorism” of certain activists after clashes last Saturday between demonstrators and police in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres).
Prohibition to demonstrate for a “just” cause
“What are we going to talk about? From this term, from a very small fraction that wanted to fight it out and not from the heart of the matter, which is whether it is fair to reserve huge basins for 12 farmers, which will disrupt the water cycle “, retorted Clémentine Autain.
“It does not adapt France to the drought, it continues to engulf France in a productivist model which does not make it possible to solve the environmental issues which are ours and which benefit a very small number of farmers”, a she continued. She also denounced a “police overpresence not at all likely to calm things down” and the ban on demonstrations, despite a “just” cause.
“The number 1 target of the power in place”
“The Minister of the Interior chooses who his number one enemies are. Environmental activists, the left, the Nupes, are the number one target of the power in place,” she concluded.
“When the government doesn’t care that there are young people on the streets demanding a whole series of changes and the government does not do it and persists in climate inaction, at some point, indeed, it radicalizes”, she also analyzed.