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Europes largest protest zone is going through mul­ti­ple evic­tions — all through much media silence! Over the past four days La ZAD, an anti-air­port protest zone, com­pos­ing of over 20 occu­pied sites has been putting up the bar­ri­cades, oppos­ing and protest­ing against the harass­ment and the evic­tions by a troop of police over a 1000 strong.

Largest Protest Zone in Europe Being Evict­ed

La ZAD (La Zone A Défendre)

Europes largest protest zone is going through mul­ti­ple evic­tions (because there are numer­ous sites) — all through much media silence! Over the past four days La ZAD, an anti-air­port protest zone, com­pos­ing of over 20 occu­pied sites has been putting up the bar­ri­cades, oppos­ing and protest­ing against the harass­ment and the evic­tions by a troop of police over a 1000 strong. La ZAD is in the area of Notre Dame de Lande, just north of the city of Nantes, in the north-west of France.

Video of one of the ear­li­er Police mobil­i­sa­tions:

Resis­tance aux expul­sions from Résis­tances nddl on Vimeo.

 

Sit down protest in Bel Air:  http://zebuzzeo.blogspot.fr/2012/10/a‑notre-dames-des-landes-l-etat-ps.html

Good series of pic­tures of bar­ri­cades and resis­tance:  https://picasaweb.google.com/113382718807039752437/Expulsions#slideshow/5799932948346626882

Good info in Eng­lish: http://en.squat.net/tag/zad/

Tear gas has been used against the bar­ri­cades and the mil­i­tary have been mobilised to sup­port the evic­tions.

Below are sum­maries and trans­la­tions of their FLASH INFO / UPDATES (please excuse the bad eng­lish).

 

THEIR MESSAGE: And most impor­tant­ly: there is plen­ty of places occu­pied (land and three hous­es with evic­tion dead­line until Octo­ber 27), and the the occu­pant-es are always on site, with lots of oth­er peo­ple com­ing to defend the area, and full of mes­sages and actions of sol­i­dar­i­ty every­where! It is not their police pres­sure which make our protests impo­tent acts of resis­tance will con­tin­ue until the project will not be removed.

Octo­ber 16th

[Places evict­ed : la Bel­lich’, Bel Air, la Gaité, les Planchettes, le Tertre, le Pré Fail­li, la Pré Fail­lite et St Jean du Tertre.]

11h18 : // in his speech, the pre­fect declared that the oper­a­tion is fin­ished for today, that all went fine, with­out arresta­tions and that the mil­i­tary occu­pa­tion will con­tin­ue for sev­er­al days to secure the destruc­tion of the hous­es

13h15 : charge et tirs de lacry­mo vers le Sabot ; arrivée de nom­breux four­gons de CRS // Tear gas bee­ing shot around the Sabot, arrival of numer­ous riot cop cars

15:10 : les gens dans le Sabot se font gaz­er, dépan­neuse et trac­topelle en vue, 3 camions de CRS et 10 de gen­darmes se diri­gent vers le Sabot // peo­ple at the Sabot get­ting tear­gased, break­down lor­ry and dig­gers been seen, 3 cop vans of riot cops and 10 mil­i­tary vans head­ing towards Sabot

15h20 : // bar­ri­cade burn­ing at the Sabot. It’s seems to get­ting hot for them

15h40 : // fol­low­ing a exterieur infor­ma­tion, the Mil­i­tary are being mobi­lized for more 48h to pre­vent new occu­pa­tions

 18h15 : // a dig­ger is arriv­ing at the way to the Sabot to enter in the gar­den by the side, 40 peo­ple are still at the Sabot

Octo­ber 17th

[Places evict­ed: les Planchettes, le Tertre.]

8h20 : // a con­voy with a rub­bish truck, dig­ger and a road semi-trail­er are arriv­ing at the Planchettes, under a big escort, big spots light­ing on the Planchettes

10:05 : // there is the propo­si­tion to meet up in the Sabot to dis­cuss, bring water and food, 10 cop vans seen dri­ving to the north direc­tion Fos­se noires/ Planchettes, medias say­ing that the destruc­tion of the hous­es start­ed 🙁 , there is demo in Paris in front of the min­is­tery of envi­ron­ment

11h12 : // there are 30 cop vans in the region around the Tertre where they actu­al­ly destroy the house :(, there are posi­tioned at the end of the Chemin de sueze and at Chênes de Per­rières, the destruc­tion of the Planchettes got con­firmed by the medias :(, at the Sabot it seems qui­et but the heli­copter is turn­ing over the Phare Ouest

12h20 : la destruc­tion de Planchettes dans les medias 🙁 sad­ness and rage…

14h48 : // there are cops arriv­ing in front of the Phare Ouest vers the Chêvrerie
14h58 : // the cops stopped to go for­ward, peo­ple are behind the bar­ri­cades
15h17 : // peo­ple juste got charged by cops vers the Planchettes

15h45 : // some 20 cop vans are in front of the Sabot, the cops came out run­ning

15h50 : // call­out for sup­port at Phare Ouest, the cops tak­ing off the tree block­ing the road

16h15 : // the con­voy which cut the tree is leav­ing, anoth­er one seems to arriv­ing quick­ly from direc­tion Ardil­lières

18h55 : // the cops broke down the bar­ri­cade of the Sabot, they entered but they don’t charge yet

19h11 : pigs got charged by the peo­ple south of Sabot, defend­ing their home, brave friends of us, keep on rock­ing against this ter­ror­istes…

20h04 : // the mil­i­tarys start back shoot­ing tear­gas

20h22 : // It seems the fuck­ers are win­ning some ter­rain on the field on the south, there are also hid­ing behind the chick­ens, fuck­ing lame

MESSAGE TO THE PORCS : if you hurt the chick­ens, we’ll call the ani­mal pro­tec­tion !!!

21h35 : // the Man­i­tou ’ some destruc­tion machine ) is head­ing in the direc­tion of Phare Ouest, the Sabot still keeps resisit­ing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we love you.……

22h07 : // 10 riot cop vans part vers les Ardil­lières, around the Sabot, they gas a lot, lot, lot..BUT THE SABOT IS STILL RESISTING !!! fuck you cops, fuck you ayrault, you dont get your air­port !!

22h06 : // the work­ing machine left with the con­voi. We got con­firmed that the cries we heard are not at all cries of fear but of rage and deter­mi­na­tion!

23h00 : // cops came back to the entry of the Sabot, they get stoned and leave…

Octo­ber 18th

[Places evict­ed: la Pointe, la cabane col­lec­tive de la forêt de Rohanne.]

9:05 : // the cops go into the Saulce, riot cops come clos­er to the bar­ri­cade of the Sabot

9h12 : // cops con­tin­ue to det­stroy the bar­ri­cade of the Saulce. 3 cop vans going towards the chemin de suez from the Saulce bar­ri­cade

[The rest done with inter­net trans­late]

9h37 : it is report­ed to the police that there are peo­ple in the tree-tops of la Saulce. Cloud of tear gas.

10h25 : begin­ning of the expul­sion of the great for­est (Foret Rohanne) they are destroy­ing the house col­lec­tive. peo­ple in the trees/ cab­ins.

10h32 : they emp­ty the house of the col­lec­tive for­est. They have a team of climb­ing.

11h22 : WE CALL ON ALL AND ALL TO MANIFEST THEIR SOLIDARITY WITH WHAT HAPPENS HERE AND SPREAD THE NEWS MOST WIDELY AVAILABLE Local­ly: 19h call to ral­ly out­side the pre­fec­ture of Nantes tonight / at 18.30 in front of the town hall of Rennes Fri­day evening.

12h00 : Rohanne in the for­est: the exca­va­tor work­ing and almost fin­ished destroy­ing the com­mu­nal house, the per­son in the tree where the climbers are mount­ed refus­es to go down, it is cov­ered by a rub­ber bul­lets.

12h14 : From the online press, the pre­fec­ture announced the evac­u­a­tion of the place called Point and Heath Rohanne, and men­tions three arrests. To be con­firmed.

13h10 : there are still many peo­ple in the trees in the for­est. The cops are not climb­ing. There would be three arrest­ed alleged­ly released. We hear again the heli­copter.

16h01 : the GIGN has left the for­est, they could not evict peo­ple still in the trees.

17h 34 : Lande de Rohanne: since this morn­ing, destroy­ing the col­lec­tive hut sur­round­ed by a hand­ful of Gen­darmes Mobiles. Some peo­ple in trees, oth­ers ground sup­port. 4 peo­ple were descend­ed from the trees GIPN. The remains of the hut were tak­en by a marabout. 17h cops to head fur­ther north to a sec­ond cab­in floor, releas­ing those who were on their way, but regard­less of at least 3 com­rades still in the trees.

20h08 : We have infor­ma­tion that a per­son is detained in police cus­tody in La Chapelle sur Erdre from 4:20 p.m. for refus­ing to give his name. She was arrest­ed on the road near Ardil­lères.

23h23 : The per­son arrest­ed was released this morn­ing, she has a meet­ing for Jan­u­ary 22 at St Nazaire 14h (It is not the per­son arrest­ed at 16.20, who is still in GAV.)

We learn that 500 peo­ple gath­ered at Nantes tonight in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Zad. Peo­ple’s will!

19th Octo­ber

8h53 : Noth­ing to report except a few patrols run­ning on the Zad, Fil­ter and road­blocks at cer­tain points, this morn­ing. The cops have mas­sive­ly left the area last night. We remain vig­i­lant but it could be that it is the end of the first “wave” of oper­a­tion here. It may resume in the com­ing days, and last …

10h30 : the oper­a­tion is per­haps not fin­ished for this phase … they expelled L’Iso­lette, and cur­rent­ly runs around the Fos­s­es Noires.

10h35 : evac­u­a­tion of the pile of rub­ble that became Le Tertre.

10h40 : Evic­tion of Coin en Cours under­way, thir­ty peo­ple are around.

14h12 : We hope that our friends in the for­est are doing well. The area is expelled and destroyed. Thank you Le Coin, we will miss you!

Received by mail: For tonight ral­ly out­side the pre­fec­ture of Nantes in 19h! It is pro­posed that we find in red and black! It brings songs, then bring your vocal cords! Song for all print here:  http://www.deljehier.levillage.org/ … Oth­er­wise, it also offers a meet­ing point for you to car­pool mor­bi­han­nais … Vis­it the Rond-Point du Petit Molac Questem­bert at 17:30. Will print some of the world! El pueblo unido, Lalalalalala .……

15h43 : dif­fi­cult time to live with­out news of our friends in places man­age­ment, we are still try­ing to get out, but our com­mu­ni­ca­tion is dif­fi­cult KLAXON!