2023-06-24 14:05:09
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 3 hours ago, Updated 19 minutes ago
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On social networks, several photos show activists, hoes in hand, carrying out the action with their faces uncovered, dressed in yellow vests.
«Water is a common good“: this slogan was dug on Saturday on the course of a golf course in Bandol (Var) by activists of ANV-COP21, to protest once morest “grabbingof the resource in times of drought, announced the environmental movement. “This morning, sixteen ANV-COP21 activists marked the fairway of the Frégate Provence golf course in Bandol. We denounce the grabbing of water for the private interest of the privileged classes in times of drought!“wrote the movement on its site and on the Twitter and Facebook networks.
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An action of “civil disobedience”
«The Var department is on drought alert. Currently, it is prohibited to water golf courses only from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. We demand a total ban on the watering of golf courses during drought alerts” as well as “any other non-essential activity“Writes the movement once more. The action took place at 5am, before the golf course opened, and the activists left unmolested.
A photo posted, obviously taken with a drone, shows the slogan, dug in large capital letters in a lawn on the course, near a sand bunker with the Mediterranean Sea in the background. A banner bearing the slogan “the class struggle starts here!is deployed below, as well as a smaller one bearing the NGO’s logo. Other photos show activists, hoes in hand, carrying out the action with their faces uncovered, dressed in yellow vests.
Nonviolent Action COP21 (ANV-COP21) is known for actions of civil disobedience, such as the hanging of portraits of President Emmanuel Macron in town halls, to denounce “climate inaction” of the government. In May, the group had also participated in the attempt to block the general assembly of the oil group TotalEnergies.
The golf management will file a complaint
Contacted, the management of the Frégate Provence golf course announced its intention to file a complaint. “We apply the instructions (restrictions, editor’s note) to the letter“, assured the golf director, Franck Le Blevec, stressing that the establishment had a “direct debit authorized» and did not draw from the water table.
«We are on a virtuous circleto reduce water consumption andwe save water because it is a common good“, he added, regretting a”incomprehensible golf-bashing“. On its website, the establishment boasts “the incomparable beauty (of its) 18-hole golf course, considered one of the most beautiful courses in Europe in the south of France, with 15 breathtaking views of the Mediterranean Sea (…) in the heart of vineyards and pines».
As early as February, the Var prefecture had placed the majority of the department on drought alert. Despite the recent rains, the restrictive measures are still in force.
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