France, Alternative Libertaire AL (September) -
Notre-Dame-des-Landes Final Fight against airport (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
The 15th summer meetings Notre-Dame-des-Landes were held on 11 and 12 July. At the same
time, power and pro-airport multiplied declarations Will in war, heralding a new eviction.
Point on the move. ---- On 17 July, the Nantes Administrative Court rejected the seventeen
appeals against the prefectural orders authorizing the start of construction of the
airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. ---- Despite the commitment made by the PS to wait the
exhaustion of legal remedies (there are still ...) Valls announced the same day that "this
decision must result in the resumption of work." Decision celebrated by the association of
pro-pathetic airports, Wings to the West, by the release of balloons! The opponents,
themselves, decided to continue using the legal battle.
More broadly, it is a set of statements that resembles a will to prepare the ground for a
new media crackdown.
Thus the Loire-Atlantique Prefect had not waited for the court decision to indicate that
the government will not wait the exhaustion of appeals for action. Another example is the
appointment of former military S. Ribou, new sub-prefect in charge of the dossier NDDL
exclusively. Last symbolic provocation dated the announcement of the remilitarization of
Larzac!
Hold the barricades
The probability of a major operation to encircle Zad to better evacuate, as advocated by
some police officials, seems to indicate. Will it take place in September or just before
the start of COP21? Nothing is certain. What is new is that the resistance will be large.
Because since the failure of the Caesar operation in 2012, the 200 local committees know
what to do with the announcement of an attack. Besides keeping the barricades on Zad, it
will occupy places of power everywhere (town hall, prefecture ...) and block traffic
routes (tolls, highways ...), to force the cops to be everywhere and giving a national
scale, or even more, to the fight.
Meanwhile, the 15th NDDL festive meetings brought together more than 15,000 people, a
success! Fifty debates took place: on the future of Zad on the COP 21 but also Bure, the
Tafta, the great Paris, Greece and the struggles in Mexico ...
Of course, we heard tense discussions around the modes of action and the use of violence.
However, if the tensions and differences between the various components of the fight
remain high, especially since the demonstration on 22 February 2013, still could be found
in a number of interventions pretty exciting complementarity between the various
interventions.
Benjamin (U Nantes)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Notre-Dame-des-Landes-Lutte-final
