Notre-Dame-des-Landes: Three ‘Vinci’ lackeys chased out of the ZAD (and their vehicles sabotaged)

sab­o­taged biologist’s vehi­cle

Wednes­day morn­ing [April 29th 2015], in Vigneux-de-Bre­tagne, three biol­o­gists from Angers who came to study mar­bled newt were chased off by a dozen masked indi­vid­u­als.

In recent days, sci­en­tists from Gec­co (Ecol­o­gy and Con­ser­va­tion of Ver­te­brates Group), a Fac­ul­ty of Sci­ences lab­o­ra­to­ry in Angers, have been tak­ing sam­ples on the ZAD. The con­ces­sion­aire appoint­ed by the state, man­dat­ed by Vin­ci, are study­ing the func­tion­al­i­ty of amphib­ian pop­u­la­tions on the zone affect­ed by the air­port project. In this case the mar­bled newt.

Wednes­day morn­ing, they were act­ing in a place called La Fremière, north of Vigneux-de-Bre­tagne, when they saw a dozen hood­ed peo­ple arrive. They asked them to leave the premis­es after break­ing win­dows and wind­screens and punc­tur­ing their car tires.

By the time the gen­darmes had arrived at the scene, the per­sons unknown had fled. There were no arrests. A com­plaint was filed.