There Compiègne police has Arrested two peopleamong the Opponents of the Seine Nord Canal projectthis afternoon Thursday, January 30. One for organization of illegal eventthe other for outrageous.
The first person arrested is a “squirrel”, one of those activists who have occupied the two plane trees since Tuesday, at the entrance to Court Guynemer to Compiègne. This man is in police custody for illegal “organization” of a demonstration, which is an offense.
It could have been for “participation” in an event not authorized by the prefecture, which is “contraventional”. But this allows the police, according to the lawyer of the demonstrators Maître Pierre Brunisso, to have more effective procedural means. However, it should now be proven that the suspect in question has actually organized this rally.
This arrest took place when the police asked the demonstrators to move away from the trees. They “picked up” the squirrel on the ground. On the other hand, the other two climbers, descended later, were able to leave, a few minutes after setting foot on the ground.
“They have removed one of us”
Maître Pierre Brunisso, Parisian lawyer, specialized in the defense of demonstrators in favor of the climate. He was at the forefront to attend the second arrest of the day. Once the demonstration is completed, a small group of demonstrators went up the avenue de Soissons, when a police van came up to their height.
“We have heard a brake noise, doors that slam,” describes one of the activists. And we saw police officers go out in a rush. They embarked one of us storm. ” An episode that the “anti-channel seine north” describe as “an abduction”.
A legal “abduction”, however, explains the Commissioner of Compiègne Francis Vincenti. “This person has outraged the police,” he said, at the time when the police brought down the “squirrels” of the tree.
