"Who are you to decide our health without us?": in La Rochelle, they demonstrated against the Duplomb law

This Sunday, June 29, several hundred people denounced the threat to health and the environment posed by this text, which will be examined on Monday by MP Benoît Biteau.

"What a Green and progressive MP is currently experiencing in the National Assembly is a bit like a museum of small horrors." Benoît Biteau, MP for Rochefort-Aunis (The Ecologists), has a meeting on Monday, June 30th, to examine, within the joint committee, the Duplomb law, which proposes to "lift the constraints" concerning the use of pesticides and water storage. As a substitute, he will not be able to vote.

"But they will hear me," the MP assured on Sunday, June 29, at the end of the demonstration in La Rochelle. 700, "or perhaps between 1,000 and 1,200," people gathered in the shadow of La Coursive, in front of the prefecture, to protest their opposition to this law.

"Who are you to decide our health without us?" Franck Rinchet-Girollet of the Avenir Santé Environnement association told the parliamentarians. Confédération Paysanne, LPO, Nature Environnement 17, Extinction Rebellion... Several leaders spoke, including Les Soulèvements de la Terre, which accused the Grand Port Maritime of being "the last link in the agro-industry chain."