Over 4 hours of hearings, seven defendants, three witnesses, two lawyers and many people support us: a true case of nuclear power!
( see the verdict February 21, 2011 )
Thanks to everyone
The Ganvié
AFP:
Occupation tower against the Flamanville: 500 euros required
RENNES - Rennes The prosecution has requested 500 euros fine against six anti-nuclear activists who had participated in 2007 in the occupation of two towers in protest against the construction the EPR Flammanville (Channel), Thursday in a trial in magistrate.
About 120 sympathizers gathered outside the court in Rennes to show their solidarity with the defendants and to reiterate their opposition to the development of this nuclear project, noted AFP.
The six activists Ganvié (Group of nonviolent actions ANA) were occupied during four days a pylon to Romagna and another for a day in Saint-Germain-en-Coglès, Ille-et-Vilaine, in spring 2007.
At the hearing, their lawyers have cited an "act of civil disobedience" had caused "no damage" and had not disrupted the electricity supply. They advocated the release or, alternatively, an exemption from penalty.
Cited as a witness by the defendants, MEP Nicole Kiil-Nielsen (EELV) was considered "normal citizens seeking to draw attention to problems related to nuclear power."
Opponents denounce the health risks associated with the EPR and on line at very high voltage (EHV) that must pass through the departments of Manche, Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne and that "no epidemiological study independent of magnitude scale has yet been done. "
At the bar, the defendants raised a "denial of democracy" in the way was the decision to build these facilities. According to them, "two years behind schedule" taken by the current project and additional costs have confirmed their denunciation of "opaqueness" surrounding these projects.
Network of Transmission of Electricity (TEN), a subsidiary of EDF, the source of the complaint, claiming 830,000 euros in damages, citing the start "a precaution" of oil-fired plants to offset a possible power outage due in the event.
The ruling was reserved on 21 February.
In June 2009, in Cherbourg, four activists were sentenced to a fine of 300 euros each in a similar case. They were sentenced to pay jointly 1,500 euros in damages to RTE.
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