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Friday 25 January 2013
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We will circulate freely and in peace on the roads of the ZAD: Free the D281 and the D81!
Meeting point at the crossroads of les Ardillères, Sunday, January 27 at 11am
Since the beginning of Operation Ceasar, October 16th, the national guard has maintained a military occupation of the main crossroads of the zone for the Grand Ouest airport project.
We, who live in this zone, are submitted to: repetitive identity controls the obligation to pass across the fields to get to our houses interminable negotiations to pass a crossroads on bike or by car searches of vehicles and backpacks humiliating situations as a part of our everyday lives
For us, inhabitants of Fay-de-Bretagne, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Vigneux-de-Bretagne and the surrounding counties, this situation prevents us from free circulation on the D281 and the D81, and forces us to go far out of our way.
These roads, the D281 and the D81 are ours. They belong to everyone who uses them, and who took them every day before the beginning of evictions and demolitions of occupied houses. In this period, we had to barricade them to stop the police, backhoes, and others from getting too comfortable. The military police have taken control of these main roads and only permit access when they feel like it, and most of the time controlling the identity of and searching the vehicles and people. After the first wave of evictions, the barricades were removed, leaving chicanes (partial barricades that you can pass with a car but much more slowly) for two reasons: slowing down the speed of circulation because these roads are used daily by pedestrians, animals, and cyclists staying vigilant in case of new attacks on our living places
We want to make it easier to circulate on these roads and make it more visible who is actually doing the blocking. The military police are blocking access to the D281 with detour and roadblock signs, even though it’s ok to pass by the chicanes.
Could this be to get us used to long detours around an airport project to follow the current demolitions?
We refue this new order of road usage imposed by the police chief and will continue to use the existing roads.
We callout for people to take these roads any time you wish.
(prepare to welcome those who would like to pass and help them to pass- bring things for signaling, picnics, music, etc...)
YES CHICANES! (she-kan)