The creative, organizational, operational and mobilizing capacity of the Earth Uprising [called collective], as well as its capacity for national and media echo in local struggles, make us stand as the main agent of the environmental radical station.” We can think that these flowers are spread by a lover of this movement. But no. This sentence comes from an internal report by the French State Information Services.

The Reporterre media has had access to this official document which contains the conclusions of the study carried out by the police last November. A clear conclusion can be drawn from this report: the French State regards this young group of just two years as a real threat. The long list of force points of the movement can be explained in the Police report: “skill”, “intelligence”, “perfect communication”, “ability to seduce”, etc.

This report, written a year and a half ago, is an important element in analysing the violent repressive response to the protest organized on 25 March in the village of Saint-Soline.Ese day, 30,000 people faced megabassine or the gigantic pile to be projected in the area. The movement against these mega-projects aimed at promoting industrial cultivation and harming the ecosystem has been developing in recent years in the French State, organized precisely by the Earth Survey, the farmers' union Confédération Paysanne and the group Bassine Non Mch (Uraskak, thank you).

The movement against major breakdowns and other macro-projects, such as last weekend 8,000 people joined the A69 motorway, is being an interesting meeting point between the rural and the urban world. That is, the movement works, it becomes increasingly multitudinous step by step, and that is not what the state wants. But in reality, the mass of people does not concern the state, as evidenced by the contempt it has for millions of citizens who join the street against the bars. As we can read in the report, the risk is: “The Earth Treasury has achieved with the term ‘disarmament’ the acceptance of eco-sabotage by those who until now were in civil disobedience. (...) They have managed to develop a radical branch and tougher paths within the environmental struggle, moving the window of Overton: accustomed to actions that were radically radical on the first occasions, they do not look more violently.” The Human Rights League of Sainte-Solin denounced that the use of violence by the police was “excessive”. The 3,200 policemen officially used “weapons of war”, throwing 5,000 grenades for two hours, striking about two hundred protesters, of whom 40 were serious and two were in a coma. At the same time, about 40 policemen were injured, but no one would deny that there was a big difference between the wounds and the violence on both sides.

Since then, the Mediapartat media is monitoring the rescues, getting to know those who were there and the set of items collected under the label Mégabassines, the guerre de l’eau (“The Big Water Warfare”) is worrying. Among others, the testimony Je pensais qu´il allait mourir entre mes mains (“I thought I would die in my hands”), which dedicated his help to Serge, an activist extracted from the coma last week and who continues between life and death.

According to the law, he was cracked on the head of pomegranate that had to break in the air, crumbling his protective helmet in a thousand pieces. Granada rose up and fell with tampa, bleeding through the nose, ear and mouth and eyes returned. It tells how they were in the midst of the flood of pomegranate and nefarious gas, trying to channel the cord but powerless – it would light up in later days, thanks to telephone recordings, the laces and the firefighters had the command not to come to it. Reporterre has also collected testimonies and in his article Les traumatisés de Sainte-Soline (“Traumatized by Sainte-Solin”) specifies that the organizers received in the following days “30-50” calls “in the line of urgent psychological emergencies”. Since then, there are many protesters who have flashbacks, post-traumatic stress, sudden crying and other discomfort.

In the document published by the Earth Treasurer the day after the protest we can read the following: “We expected harmful gases, grenades, armor and other military closets, but we didn’t expect such a storm. (...) Although he recalled the death of Rémi Fraiss [who died in 2014, after receiving a grenade at the demonstration against the Sivens dam in southern France], we were not prepared to face the desire to die to that extent. They have passed a new issue.” A ceux et celles qui ont marché à Sainte-Soline (Those who were in progress in Sainte-Solin) is a juicy writing that links self-criticism and political analysis.

New weapon: marking with an invisible product

Drowned between grenade and devastating gases, no one knew the Police was experiencing a new weapon: EMF100 rifle that emits marbles formed by an invisible product. This invisible can be seen by the police with rays ser.El independent journalist
Clément B., for the media Le Monde or Radio France, surprised when he returned from Saint-Solin, from his work: to remain in control, ask the papers, notify of the observation of the “criminalistic substances”, suffer displacements above the garments with a UV lamp and show joy. “They were thrown, it’s positive!” says the journalist. He spent 28 hours in the police station, interrogated, because that brand that you can only see through the UV lamp showed you that he was there.

Government steps to undo the movement

Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin, in the days after the Saint-Solin demonstration, made public the objective of dismantling the movement, considering the protesters as “eco-terrorists”. But it seems that the warning has only reinforced the movement: “The Earth Uprisings movement cannot be broken because it is plural and alive. A movement cannot be broken,
an insurrection cannot be broken”, said the group and since then have solidarity messages everywhere – 97,000 citizens have signed the document “We are the Uprisings of the Earth” and dozens of new groups have incorporated into the red.Plantean the need to “reinvent” actions and paths in the text written the day after Sainte-Soline, recalling its objective: "Since then, a day has not passed without allusions to water, without reports of water scarcity or contamination. It is a real challenge, we are increasingly sensitive to the issue and we are committed to rebellion. We have the battle for water, that struggle is vital, we're going to follow, we're going to organize."