The project, run by a farmer cooperative and with public support, is controversial in France, where the issue of reservoirs involves growing tensions over water sharing in times of climate change.
A protester was wounded between life and death during heavy clashes against the construction of a building in west-central France on Saturday, the prosecutor’s office confirmed on Sunday, which opened an investigation.
Some 30,000 people, according to the organizers, (6,000 according to the authors) turned out on Saturday for a protest near the construction site of the mother Sainte-Soline, whose purpose is to store water under the divo extracted from the thin water table of the winter. to irrigate the crops in summer.
The project, run by a farmer cooperative and with public support, is controversial in France, where the issue of reservoirs involves growing tensions over water sharing in times of climate change.
He clashed with police forces on Saturday, injuring seven protesters, three of them seriously, according to the prosecution, including a 30-year-old man suffering from head trauma and whose “vital prognosis remains stable”.
Icilius, on his part, pointed out that 200 of the protesters had seriously injured 40 of them.
The prosecution also reported that a total of 44 members of the security forces were injured, two of them seriously.
Authorities and protesters blame each other for violent clashes during mostly peaceful protests, AFP reporters present said.
The government announced an “intolerable wave of violence”, that the authorities “have carried out a massive repression operation” and that they have “taken serious action against the state”.
Justice revealed the investigation into the circumstances in which three protesters were seriously injured.
The construction of Sainte-Soline is only sixteen planned in the region for a capacity of six million cubic meters.
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