The device was impressive. Around 10: 30 this morning, 40 police officers and national and 60 gendarmerie mobile have carried out the expulsion of the “group of popular, self-directed and independent” The Bud of the former clothing store Moove in Saint-Étienne.
The members of the group, consisting of several movements proclaiming themselves ” anti-capitalist “, were installed in these premises which have been vacant for Saturday.
Seven people arrested
“We didn’t know how much they were inside, where a presence of this magnitude,” says commissioner Frederick Gonon, of the departmental Safety. It was therefore necessary to ensure the safety of the intervention, as well as show our strength not to have to use it. “
The intervention has not been ordered by the prefect, but carried out in the framework of a judicial procedure following a complaint by the owner (the real estate firm Humbert) filed ” immediately after the occupation.”
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After having forced the door, the forces of the order were arrested “without incident or resistance,” seven people : four men and three women aged between 25 and 30 years. They are currently in police custody and to ” degradation and remain in the area after introduction by way of the facts.”
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“A policy of intimidation “
More than a housing solution for many people and this since the 13th of June “, the collective The Bud wanted to do with the building, in front of which he had gathered 200 people on Wednesday, a “peoples’ House ” : “a space of meetings, discussions, learning, liberated from the systems of market values “.
In the late morning, some thirty people came out to declare their “solidarity” to their peers, under the gaze of the constables, mobile distributed along a security cordon in front of the office of the course Fauriel.
“The magnitude of the response system demonstrates a policy of intimidation, of fear. We are not surprised, and the Bud is thinking of new actions, ” said one of the activists.
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