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Loire-Atlantique: 300 Travellers vs. 15 Policemen: the Story of an Intrusion that Puts a Mayor Out of Him

Summary by Le Figaro
RECIT - Travellers settled on a private land on Sunday in Orvault, triggering the exasperation of the mayor who provided his support to the owner. An administrative procedure of expulsion is under way.

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"The balance of power was uneven."Sunday, August 23, around 2 p.m., about thirty caravans belonging to the Traveller community began to invest... The article "Unacceptable": the land of a farmer squatted by Travellers despite the presence of the police in the Loire-Atlantique appeared first on Current Values.

·Paris, France
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This Sunday, August 23, a hundred caravans of the Travellers settled in a field in the commune of Orvault. An illegal occupation that insupplies the mayor of the commune, which calls for measures to be taken to put an end to these situations.

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RECIT - Travellers settled on a private land on Sunday in Orvault, triggering the exasperation of the mayor who provided his support to the owner. An administrative procedure of expulsion is under way.

·Paris, France
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Nearly 300 people settled on Sunday on a private agricultural plot in Orvault, near Nantes, after having moved the concrete blocks which prohibited access to them. An administrative procedure for expulsion was initiated by the Loire-Atlantique prefecture.

Already affected by the drought and the wild boar, this farmer sees his last wetest land where he was going to be able to hand over his animals, illegally occupied by a hundred caravans of Travellers. Faced with this situation, the mayor of Orvault, near Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), launched an emergency expulsion procedure. On 23 August last, at around 2 p.m., 300 Travellers settled on a private land owned by a farmer by moving the large concrete…

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Le Figaro broke the news in Paris, France on Monday, August 24, 2026.
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