DUPLumb laws: threatened elected officials

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Manure, waste, eggs thrown on the walls of the Toulouse premises (Haute-Garonne) of Europe Ecology Les Greens. A hundred farmers responded to the call for the rural coordination of Occitania to express their anger. In question, the remarks of the environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau. “I have nothing to fart from their profitability. The profitability by chemicals is dirty money”she said.

Words that crystallize the debate around the Duplumb law. This text provides for the reintroduction of a pesticide prohibited in France but authorized in the rest of Europe. Some producers denounce unfair competition and claim it, for lack of alternatives according to them. But for a few days, tensions have been going on. Elected officials say they have received threats, like the ecological deputy for Deux-Sèvres Delphine Batho. On her social networks, she shares a photo of her vandalized parliamentary permanence. Faced with the petition against the Duplomb law which brought together more than 1.7 million signatures, rural coordination launched his with the aim of reopening the debate.