Activists claim responsibility for fire in Vendée and threaten “basin profiteers”

An anonymous email with the subject “Press release to stop megabasins action Charpentier” : like theAgence France-Presse, the writing of The New Central-West Republic was the recipient, on the morning of Monday November 25, 2024, of a message attributable to anti-basin activists. It was a little more than five hours after the fire that occurred the previous night at the Charpentier TP premises in L'Oie, in Vendée.

Seven heavy goods vehicles and one earth-moving machine were destroyed in the outdoor parking lot of the site, which houses the group's headquarters and its public works branch, i.e. seventy employees: alerted at 3:50 a.m., twenty-one firefighters saved flames two other trucks, a grader and small equipment.

“The first findings show at least two fires and a break-in at the company gateinformed Sarah Huet, the public prosecutor of La Roche-sur-Yon, in a press release. Under these conditions, the hypothesis of a fire of intentional origin is favored. Investigations are underway, the Nantes research section has been joined with the Vendée gendarmerie group. » The president of Charpentier TP filed a complaint at the beginning of the afternoon: Didier Airieau did not wish to comment.

If this group was targeted, it is because of its involvement in the construction of different replacement reserves, that of Sainte-Soline for example: for the authors of the email, “It was his machines that demolished in Vendée, drained in Charente-Maritime and dug in Deux-Sèvres. This ogre from Poitou built his empire on the artificialization of land and large useless projects. With its 130 million euros in turnover and its nineteen companies, this harmful group has grown considerably in exchange for its role in the construction sites which are destroying the Marais Poitevin and the Mellois region. »

In fact, « putting these machines out of harm's way makes it possible to concretely stop the work in progress and to remind people that no one responsible for these is unreachable.”

Basins no thank you “take note”

Like the Earth Uprisings, Bassines non merci also received the message of demand: “We take note of these actions, we are neither the sponsors nor the authorsindicated Julien Le Guet, its spokesperson. This action is a little unprecedented: it resembles what is happening on the A69 where the degradation of equipment is regular. » As well as the fire of a mechanical excavator of the company 2 Sévienne Service in the summer of 2021 in Saint-Sauvant, a town supposed to receive the SEV 14 substitution reserve.

« Retailleau Land… »

“It is true that Charpentier TP is one of these “basin profiteers” who were denounced, in an interactive map, for their involvement before the opening of the Sainte-Soline construction site, develops Julien Le Guet. Today, we are very aware that our movement goes far beyond us. And I can understand that citizens, seeing that the work continues despite resistance, strong mobilizations and legal decisions in our favor, reach such an end. Now iWe will have to be attentive to the consequences. Because such an event in “Retaileau Land”…” Retailleau, named after the Minister of the Interior, Bruno by his first name: the now former senator from Vendée also called Didier Airieau to express his support.

Threats

“By our gesturefinally write the authors of the email, We take note that the sequence we are entering into is no longer that of making visible the actors already known to all, who have been questioned many times, but of clearly impacting the continuation of the projects in order to make them stop.”

From now on, “any actor who is associated with future megabasin projects, whether in Saint-Sauvant, Clouère, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne and anywhere else where projects are on the agenda, will suffer the consequences. consequences “.