A69 freeway: several worksite machines set on fire last night in Saïx
La Dépêche, April 17, 2024 (excerpt)

via: sansnom

A new incident occurred last night on the A69 construction site at the Dicosa in Saïx. Around midnight, half a dozen hooded individuals surrounded the security guard on site, “to prevent him from raising the alarm”, according to Atosca. “The agent was intimidated and insulted. He is very shocked”, explains the company.

He then saw around thirty hooded people appear and hide. The individuals then set fire to several NGE construction machines. A few minutes later, another security guard making his rounds sounded the alarm. As a result, 4 pieces of equipment were set on fire and taken out of service, and Atosca lodged a complaint. Incendiary devices had already been discovered on the site over the past three weeks, and security guards had been instructed not to provoke a confrontation in the event of such an intrusion.

This act comes against a backdrop in which a fringe group of opponents to the A69 freeway called in a communique a few days ago for “intensified action” against NGE, the concessionaire building the freeway, recounting the actions taken against NGE site machinery in recent months: in Haute-Vienne, in February, where an excavator was set on fire, and in Gironde, where “two machines were sabotaged and a car disabled”. In early April, several machines were “sabotaged” near Agen.

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