The Port-la-Nouvelle oil depot (Aude) was unblocked by the police on Friday at dawn, the prefecture said. The passage of trucks carrying fuel had been prevented since March 16 by demonstrators against the pension reform. This action had led to “disturbances in the supply of hydrocarbons to the region”, specify the services of the State.
The operation, which mobilized about fifty CRS around 5 a.m., “took place calmly, indicates the prefecture of Aude. Truck rotations […] resumed “. AT France 3 Occitaniaa CGT official explains that “the thirty activists on the dam did not put up any resistance, as had been decided in the general assembly, because the action is intended to be non-violent”.