We tried to intimidate him and Marine Tondelier, national secretary of EELV, does not intend to stop there. Judicial information was opened following a complaint she filed after one of her trips was disrupted by an agricultural union in Lot-et-Garonne at the end of March. The judicial investigation against X is aimed at facts “of concerted obstacles to freedom of assembly and freedom of speech”, specified the public prosecutor in Agen, Olivier Naboulet.
On March 28 in Marmande, a few days after the demonstration against the “megabassines” in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), dozens of activists from the Rural Coordination (CR 47), the majority agricultural union in Lot-et-Garonne, had disrupted the start of a two-day trip by MarineTondelier to this department.
“Prevented from moving freely”
Marine Tondelier, the union had warned that the leader of the Greens was “not welcome”, after “sowing violence, hatred and desolation” by participating in the Sainte-Soline rally, organized to protest against the digging of giant water reservoirs for agricultural irrigation and marked by violent clashes between demonstrators and police.
In Marmande, nearly 200 activists had waited for the environmentalist leader when she got off the train. Despite the protection of gendarmes and plainclothes police, she was only able to advance a few tens of meters before being blocked and insulted by activists from the agricultural union who had threatened to throw slurry at her. She had turned back.
In her complaint filed at the end of April, Marine Tondelier targets CR 47 officials, including the president of the Departmental Chamber of Agriculture, Serge Bousquet-Cassagne.
“During the 48 hours of her presence in the department, she was prevented from moving freely and participating in the demonstrations which were initially planned”, is it written in her complaint.