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A69 motorway: in Tarn, opponents and police exchange stone throwing and tear gas grenades
- On July 5, 2025, clashes occurred between demonstrators and police during a protest opposing the construction of the A69 Toulouse-Castres highway near Maurens-Scopont in southern France.
- The protest followed a banned meeting at a manor house near the construction site, which the local Tarn prefecture forbade due to serious violence at past protests.
- About a thousand activists gathered, some masked and dressed in black, blocking roads with tree trunks and wooden pallets while police responded with tear gas and seized axes, picks, and crowbars.
- Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau warned that "we will let nothing pass," while authorities described ultra-left masked protesters shifting into "sedition and ultra-violence."
- The events suggest escalating tensions around the A69 project, with continued opposition likely amid strict police actions and activist mobilization.
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terradaily.comGendarmes, activists clash in French motorway protest
Protesters clashed with law enforcement during a protest against a planned motorway in southwest France Saturday, which critics object to on environmental grounds. Several hundred demonstrators, including around 50 who were masked and dressed in black, were involved in the confrontation, some throwing stones as gendarmes fired tear gas. About a thousand activists had gathered at a chateau near the site of construction work on the A69 Toulouse-Ca…
The mobilization against the A69, banned by the prefecture, degenerated into confrontation with the law enforcement forces, who responded to the stone-throwings by firing tear gas grenades.
Stone throws by demonstrators, tear gas grenades fired by law enforcement forces: tensions broke out in the late afternoon near the A69 site.
Protesters, gathered on Saturday in the park of a castle to protest against the Toulouse-Castre motorway project, marched towards the A69 site in the late afternoon, where they threw stones at the law enforcement forces, who responded by firing tear gas grenades, found journalists of the AFP. ...
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