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Gendarmes, activists clash in French motorway protest
Protesters clashed with law enforcement during a protest against a planned motorway in southwest France Saturday, which critics object to on environmental grounds. Several hundred demonstrators, including around 50 who were masked and dressed in black, were involved in the confrontation, some throwing stones as gendarmes fired tear gas. About a thousand activists had gathered at a chateau near the site of construction work on the A69 Toulouse-Ca…
The mobilization against the A69, banned by the prefecture, degenerated into confrontation with the law enforcement forces, who responded to the stone-throwings by firing tear gas grenades.
More than a thousand opponents of the A69, between Toulouse and Castres, gathered on Saturday, July 5, in front of a construction site in Maurens-Scopont (Tarn). After a festive day, tensions rhythmized the...
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Two and a half years after the beginning of its construction, the opponents of the A69 motorway are gathered again this weekend near the route between Toulouse and Castres. Their operating methods to convey their anger are however much more varied than the only violence pointed out by the government.
Stone throws by demonstrators, tear gas grenades fired by law enforcement forces: tensions broke out in the late afternoon near the A69 site.
Protesters, gathered on Saturday in the park of a castle to protest against the Toulouse-Castre motorway project, marched towards the A69 site in the late afternoon, where they threw stones at the law enforcement forces, who responded by firing tear gas grenades, found journalists of the AFP. ...
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