Hi! I am dressed up for this Garenaval as a symbol of the fight against the nuclear train passage ( "beaver trains")
The "Beaver trains" are very heavy trains, with a lot of protection
because it transports wastes, in this case the most radioactive wastes
The railway will be used to carry the radioative wastes all the way to the Cigéo project
It's predicted that 1 or 2 trains will run per day during a 100 years.
Well, it's the day of the carnival (4th of March in France), so it's Garenaval ("gare" = train station)
There, obvious!
This Garnaval, we're here to protest against the presence of this judge, against the expropriation of La Gare
because we don't have the intention of letting Andra get this plot of land that easily.
"Hello"
"Are the owners present, for the visite?"
Nowadays for the expropriations : A certain number of agricultural and forest land already belongs to Andra in the south of Meuse
but some are still missing for the ground and underground's exploitation for the nuclear bin project.
So Andra sent letters to around 300 landowners
telling them "We are interested in your land, we can be buddies if you want"
"We can put a price down, or exchange your land for another"
Except it didn't happened calmly like that!
What's happenning is that there's Emmanuel Hance
the property manager who, a few years ago, threw gasoline on activists
He goes to see the owners
And bullies them, telling them "That's what's going to happen, you will give this land or this other one..."
So La Gare is a strategic place
because it's on the railway outline that Andra wants to use,
But first and foremost because it's a place filled with stories, encounters,
political creativity and political anger. That's what we came to defend today.
We don't want this place to belong to Andra easily.