Violent clashes on 25 March in France during a demonstration against mega-reservoirs for irrigation at Sainte-Soline
Clashes in France, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, around the mega water reservoirs under construction at Saint-Soline.
The number of injured in the incidents with the Gendarmerie on Saturday 25 March ranges, according to sources, from 30 to 200, some of them very seriously. At least 4,000 dispersal grenades were reportedly fired by the police to disperse the 30,000 demonstrators who had come from all over France and from other countries.
Opponents of the project denounce the “monopolisation and hoarding” of water by “agribusiness” in the face of climate change, and call for a moratorium on the construction of the mega-reservoirs in order to launch “a real territorial project” on the “sharing of water”.
