Leak concerning a future police intervention on the ZAD People regularly send us “leaks” or rumors about works or police actions that are supposed to happen on the Zone À Défendre. Some are false, but destabilize the movement and worry the project’s opponents. Lately someone has shared with us a leak that seems too serious to keep quiet. Supposedly the moving of endangered species (part of the joke that is environmental mitigation) will happen before the end of the year, and the authorities (...)
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Leak concerning a future police intervention on the ZAD
30 October 2013
Reopening of the D281’s road
2 July 2013
On the 22th of june, at night, opponents against the airport reopened the D281’s road. This road must stay open for many reasons : farmers has to join their fields to work we refuse that authority isolate the ZAD with people locked inside. Car drivers use this road every day. The airport won’t be built, there is no reason to doom the raod, neither today nor tomorow. People from the ZAD and its (...)
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Boreholes on the ZAD: Developers, you’re in trouble… up to your necks! Since Monday 10 June, boreholes have been made on several places on the ZAD. After the so-called dialogue commission, the scientific commission asked AGO/VINCI to start complementary studies to know more about the hydrography of the area. The purpose of these studies is probably to count the amount of ponds – made with tarpoline – and artificial farmland they would have to reconstruct a bit further, in accordance with the (...)
Medical Team communiqué 24th of november 2012
11 December 2012
From Notre-Dame-des-Landes After weeks of occupation and weeks of police and military harassment, while we are still defending the area from the scheduled pouring of concrete, we have reached today, saturday the 24th of november, a peak of violence with hundred of people harmed within whom thirty severely injured. They have been treated by the medical team established at la Vache rit, being one of the numerous medical team on the area. We have counted around twenty people hit by splinter (...)
Press release, November 13th 2012
13 November 2012
For immediate circulation We learned today from the press that a security guard was allegedly attacked during the night of the 12th/13th of November by a group of about twenty people, in front of the place name “La pointe”. Because this place until recently occupied before it was bricked up since the beginning of the wave of expulsions on Tuesday October 16th, the Prefecture instantly denounced an action from the opponents. It also took the opportunity to re-address its endless speech to (...)
Press Release - Nov 9th 2012 - November 17th: everyone radically opposed to the airport!
10 November 2012
Press Release - November 9th 2012 - for immediate circulation November 17th: everyone radically opposed to the airport! What is fundamentaly radical in the opposition is the utter conviction that the airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes will never exist. The movement against the airport is growing stronger and stronger. Anger and solidarity are expressed here as well as elsewhere. All the gatherings and actions performed in the last four weeks against the Vinci group and the Socialist Party (...)
Press release 18/10 16:30
7 November 2012
Thursday, 18th October 2012 by Zadist Determined resistance continues against attempts to evict occupants from the ZAD (zone threatened by the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project) as the area is becoming increasingly militarized. Le Sabot, a market garden plot which was cleared and planted collectively in May 2011, continues to be occupied by protesters. This morning the police began the eviction of Rohanne forest with the destruction of a collective cabin and the forcible removal of (...)
Press release 19th October
7 November 2012
This Friday, October 19th, in the evening, a house in the ZAD (Area To Be Defended – “Zone A Défendre” in French), previously emptied of its inhabitants and bricked up by decision-makers, was reopened by the opponents of the airport project. Press release sent on this occasion: ZAD / Notre Dame des Landes: Press Release 19th October – 20:00 The (...)
Press release 30th October, 10:30 am... We’re still here !
30 October 2012
Since 8 am, hundreds of riot policemen tried to evict the occupants of La Saulce in Notre-Dame-des-Landes and met determined resistance from dozens of people, some of them perched in cabins in the trees, others behind barricades built during the weekend on the road D81 *. At least three opponent were wounded by flash ball guns or stun grenades during the attacks."Once again, I notice that the republic uses offensive weapons to quell the resistance," said Gael, who was here during the (...)
Press release sent October - 17/10 à 23h
17 October 2012
Press release sent October We live here, we’ll stay here! After two days of resistance and solidarity, only seven houses and one plot were evicted at the ZAD, a threatened area meant to make place to an airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Everywhere police forces met determinated opponents, inhabitants refusing to leave their houses, their roofs. Demonstrations. direct actions took place around several locations, roads we barricaded, activists keeping joining the ZAD area, etc… Since hours, (...)
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