It is with vulgar and sexist insults as well as an Aude farmer summed up his vision of the commitment of women in ecology on Monday, at the passage of Marine Tondelierwho recounted the episode in a thread on Twitter, and Sandrine Rousseau. The national secretary of Europe Ecologie Les Verts (EELV) and the deputy came to the foot of the Montagne Noire to support a collective of inhabitants fighting against the construction of a hotel complex and a new golf in the small town of Fontiers-Cabardès. They were then to join a wine farm owned by sympathizers of the Confédération paysanne to take part in a debate and sleep there.
An estate adorned that very morning with a tarpaulin proclaiming “No to deconstructed agriculture and ecological diktat”, which did not bode well. And indeed, a welcoming committee of several dozen winegrowers blocked the road to the wine farm for the two elected officials. They tried to pass the obstacle on foot, backpack and accompanied by gendarmes.
The insult launched in the preamble obviously does not sum up the 40 minutes of exchanges on this path. There were “moments of calm and interesting discussions, says Marine Tondelier. Others more lively but frank. And more muscular moments, where the will to intimidate takes over. To reach the homes of their hosts, the visitors finally had to take the side roads.