{"id":12244,"date":"2023-12-07T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bure3iqeqde7ynpluyuubochndt33wwsbkmo7kgf32bmli4zigjwvzid.onion\/?p=12244"},"modified":"2024-04-02T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T12:23:18","slug":"meuse-la-tradition-du-relai-de-la-flamme-enfin-reconnue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bureburebure.info\/en\/meuse-la-tradition-du-relai-de-la-flamme-enfin-reconnue\/","title":{"rendered":"Meuse: the tradition of the olympic flame\u2019s relay finally recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Originally published on: manif-est.info<\/a> (in french)<\/p>\n

A lot of bad things have been said about the Olympic Games – and rightly so – for a long time now. They were already crap in London and Rio, in Albertville and Beijing, they were already the place for the exaltation of nationalism in Berlin in 1936, and it’s a safe bet that we would even have been considered them bad in ancient Greece. However, the Olympic Committee is not always devoid of common sense, and knows how to recognize, appreciate and value local customs. Such is the case with the forthcoming arrival of the Olympic Flame in the south of the Meuse d\u00e9partement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On June 29, 2024, the “Flame Relay” will pass through our verdant countryside. One might legitimately ask why. It’s true that an event lasting less than a day, whose cost (responsibility of the d\u00e9partement) exceeds the Department Council’s annual budget for sport, might seem surprising<\/a>. And then, when you think of the Meuse, you don’t think directly of athletics or javelin throwing, let alone tennis or breakdancing (yes, it’s an Olympic sport now). Of course, the bicycle pedal was invented in Bar-le-Duc, but that’s not enough to label it a “Land of Games”.<\/p>\n

Relay, a popular discipline in Meuse<\/h3>\n

In fact, it’s not the usual disciplines that are in vogue around here, but the Flame relay as such. Indeed, things have been burning for some years now. In this mystical land, marked by the Virgin Mary’s apparitions to Joan of Arc, the sacred fire is spreading. It appears, feeds on what it finds and dies, only to re-emerge further away, even brighter. One day it devours an ANDRA borehole, the next day a measuring tower, further a barracks under construction. The most indomitable of the four elements prowls on the Barrois plateau, the Saulx valley and as far as Commercy, where a company car – apparently badly used – was burnt to the ground last winter.<\/p>\n

Here he is, the real meusien Flame\u2019s Relay! He’s the one the Olympic Committee wants to highlight, without daring to admit it publicly. And that’s just recognition, because it takes courage, self-sacrifice, talent and daring to accomplish such feats, to break records for speed or precision, to overcome fears, to dodge the obstacles that stand like so many hurdles on the nocturnal path of anonymous fire-starters. These are the “values of Olympism”, that universalist philosophy we thought was full of good (capitalist and colonial) sentiments.<\/p>\n

We will agree that it wouldn\u2019t be so fair-play to disappoint the Committee in this final stretch. There are still seven months to show ourselves worthy of this celebration, and to multiply as many hearths of festivities as possible until the final bouquet of the June 29th. I’ve even heard that our beloved President has declared physical and athletic activity the Great National Cause of 2024<\/a>, so we’re running out of options.<\/p>\n

On your marks, get set, fire (at Andra), go!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A brief (non-exhaustive) hit list of the meusian flame\u2019s relay<\/h3>\n

Since 2015 (at least)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Recurrent fires in the “green boxes”, boreholes and piezometers sown by ANDRA all around the laboratory in Bure.<\/p>\n

For example here, in June 2020:\u2028 https:\/\/attaque.noblogs.org\/post\/2020\/06\/03\/nucleaire-sabotage-dun-forage-a-bure\/\u2028<\/a> (in french) or here, in July 2022 : https:\/\/bureburebure.info\/quelques-photos-suite-a-lannonce-de-la-dup\/<\/a> (in french)<\/p>\n

June 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Destruction and “attempted fire” at the Bindeuil hotel-restaurant.\u2028https:\/\/attaque.noblogs.org\/post\/2017\/06\/22\/bure-meuse-saccage-du-restaurant-des-nucleocrates-de-landra\/<\/a> (in french)<\/p>\n

Spring 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Complete fire at the former gendarmerie in Montiers-sur-Saulx, which was about to be renovated and put back into service.\u2028 https:\/\/www.estrepublicain.fr\/edition-de-bar-le-duc\/2017\/12\/19\/montiers-sur-saulx-incendie-ancienne-gendarmerie<\/a><\/p>\n

Year 2018<\/strong>
Sabotage of the high-voltage power line supplying Andra’s Bure-Saudron laboratory, setting fire to several pylons.<\/p>\n

November 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

The shooting range, used by the cops and hacks of the Saint Mihiel\u2019s prison, is ravaged by flames.\u2028 https:\/\/sansnom.noblogs.org\/archives\/2721<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fire at a Andra’s naturalist research station in Montiers-sur-Saulx.\u2028 https:\/\/sansnom.noblogs.org\/archives\/13231<\/a><\/p>\n

September 2022<\/strong>
Fire in Commercy of the car belonging to the architect of the mobile police barracks to be built inside the Andra lab. \u2028https:\/\/bureburebure.info\/commercy-identifier-les-collaborateurs-du-desastre-nucleaire-et-les-attaquer\/<\/a><\/p>\n

October 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fire at an “atmospheric station of excellence” in Houdelaincourt. \u2028https:\/\/lille.indymedia.org\/spip.php?article35206&lang=fr<\/a><\/p>\n

February 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fire on an Andra transmission tower at Osne-le-Val, near Bure.\u2028 https:\/\/bureburebure.info\/cinq-ans-apres-levacuation-du-bois-lejuc-lantenne-flux-de-landra-incendiee-a-osne-le-val-pres-de-bure\/<\/a><\/p>\n

May 2023<\/strong>
Fire at the future Gondrecourt-le-Ch\u00e2teau gendarmerie. \u2028https:\/\/sansnom.noblogs.org\/archives\/16685<\/a><\/p>\n

Bonus<\/strong><\/p>\n

To get a good idea of the historical roots of this discipline in our region, here’s a quick look back, found in an archive :\u2028 https:\/\/lille.indymedia.org\/IMG\/pdf\/nuclear_or_lignite_fragments_of_the_struggle_against_this_world_s_juice_from_the_bois_lejuc_to_the_hambach_forest.page_by_page.pdf<\/a> (in english)<\/p>\n

On July 27th, 2006, as part of a week of citizen agitation in Bure (Meuse) against this nuclear waste burial laboratory belonging to ANDRA, the (french) National radioactive waste management Agency, a demonstration took place right up to the site’s well-guarded gates. There were brief clashes and an attempted fire.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To find out more about the Olympics Games and all the bad things you can say about them, visit https:\/\/saccages2024.noblogs.org<\/a>, the website from which the illustrations in this article come from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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