STOP THE ATTACK ON THE ZAD BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

Communiqué / Wednesday 11 April 2018

The associations and organisations who oppose the large infrastructure projects imposed on the public and the risks and negative impact on preservation of the environment they entail protest and condemn the action now being taken by the sitting government at the ZAD at Notre-Dame-des-Landes.

They demand a halt to this large-scale military operation,
 which is destroying, indiscriminately and without due process, alternative-living projects being built or already in place,
 which is ignoring previous agreements made with a number of residents,
 which is causing a dangerous spiral of increasing tension and setting a desperate and irreversible process in motion.

The State must recognize its full responsibility for the injuries resulting from its attacks, whether of inhabitants of the ZAD or of police/military.

We are thinking of the tragedy that took place at Sivens and the meetings we have taken part in – in vain? – in the context of the work of the Commission chaired by Senator Richard in 2014, to “formulate responses to the insufficiencies of the environmental debate in France.”

The silencing and exclusion of the press is a new stage, one that leaves no one indifferent and is the cause of deep concern. The political sphere in its current majority must finally put an end to its showing contempt for, stigmatising, and destroying the desire for new economic, agricultural, cultural, and social/solidarity models that is fondly held by some of today’s youth, who are the only legitimate actors in the building of their own future. The signal being sent today to the “world of tomorrow” is unworthy of a country that still pretends to be democratic.

To that end, we hereby call on the ministries in charge of this dossier to profoundly reconsider their actions, immediately suspend the destruction operations on the ground, and seek to re-establish dialogue. Unless that happens, calls for mobilisation and support from all segments of the population and beyond will intensify in the coming hours.

INITIAL SIGNERS: This list will be complemented in the coming days

 ACTE (Association Chalonnaise pour la Transition Écologique)
 Agir pour l’Environnement
 Alsace Nature
 Alternatiba
 Alternatiba-Rouen
 Amis de la Terre (Friends of the Earth) France
 ANV-COP21
 Association La Presle
 Attac
 Attac Vosges
 Bizi !
 Bouillons Terres d’Avenir Rouen
 Coordination Cigeo/BURE Stop: Asodedra, Burestop 55, Bure Zone Libre, Cedra 52, Eodra, Habitants vigilants de Gondrecourt-le-Château, MNE, Fédération MIRABEL Lorraine environnement and opponents of the nuclear waste dump
 Collectif 3R
 Comité de soutien NDDL-Chalon
 Collectif Alsace NDDL
 Collectif GCO NON MERCI
 Collectif Non À l’Autoroute A133-A134
 Residents of the ZAD du Moulin (anti-GCO [bypass highway])
 Collectif STOP-EPR ni à Penly ni ailleurs [anti-PWR]
 Confédération Paysanne
 Fédération Environnement Eure-et-Loir
 France Nature environnement Grand Est
 Gudmont-dit-Non
 Libre Canut, Goven environmentalists’ association
 Réseau Sortir du nucléaire [anti-nuclear]