At the beginning of June, the trial for criminal association against 7 people was held in Bar le Duc. A trial against opponents of the nuclear waste burial project in Bure, Meuse. For the State, the stakes are clear: to try to crush at all costs any resistance to the Bure nuclear waste project, one of the missing links in the French and European nuclear chain.
Sold as a clean energy, nuclear power is in fact the opposite. From uranium mining to waste burial, everything is a social and ecological disaster. Just like what the digitalized society promises us. This will require us to produce more and more electrical energy, a growing demand for the future that will have to be met by nuclear power. The geopolitical stakes of digital technology are reminiscent of those that were raised for nuclear power, regardless of the massive refusal they encounter, the damage or the risks, the State has launched its absurd race.
So when Andra wants to impose itself on a territory, all the public decision-makers are put to work to silence the opposition to their productivist race: exchange of land, sale of forests, subsidies of thousands of euros to the Meuse and Haute-Marne departments.
Since the beginning, a resistance has taken place on the spot. First as an association, then more autonomous since 2015, this resistance prevents Andra from doing what it wants. It seems important to us to accentuate the ongoing struggle because this year is decisive, marking the end of the public utility enquiry for the project, which may not succeed if it is effectively challenged.
For these reasons and many others, on the night of Friday 11 to Saturday 12 June, we targeted the following actors and infrastructures:
-In Nancy, in the building housing the regional chamber of agriculture, the SAFER and the offices of the insurer Groupama, a civil party in the Bar le Duc trial, a good dozen windows were smashed and a tag reading “NIK LE NUK” was written on the façade of the building.
-In Bar le Duc, the windows of the SAFER premises were targeted and a tag was written: “Bure zone libre”.
-Between Ligny-en-Barrois and Tréveray, the railway tracks, which are still disused but which the SNCF wants to rehabilitate in order to be able to connect CIGÉO to the national network via the Nançois-Tronville station, were damaged in several places with a car jack.
To prevent the project from ever seeing the light of day, because we don’t want a system that always destroys more, let’s continue our harassment of the institutions, companies and infrastructures that help Andra to set up in Bure. There is still time!
