During one of the actions, six people were detained for their role.blockingOn Saturday, July 23, organized by the Basque Country, demanding the release of two Basque prisoners, who were banned by the prefecture of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, we learned from the Bayonne prosecutor’s office.
At around 8:30am, the group managed to enter the Biarritz airport tarmac before being chased away by police and taken into police custody.unauthorized access to airport airspace“. About 1,700 people, according to organizers and 950 according to the prefecture, were distributed on Saturday at ten blocking points on traffic axes on the Basque coast and inland.
These actions”civil disobedienceaims to draw attention to the fate of two Basque prisoners in their seventies, former ETA members who have been imprisoned for 32 years: Jakes Esnall and Ioan Parrott. They allow “to put the topic on the table and have a wider response, which was further strengthened by the prefectural ban yesterday (Friday).– assessed Mathieu Boloky, a member of the movement for the protection of Basque prisoners’ rights, Bakke Bidea.
“Stop the public accountant.”
In the afternoon in Biarritz, about sixty activists blocked the boulevard connecting the highway, the railway station and the airport. After placing tires and wooden pallets on the road, the protesters posted behind a banner that read “Stop the public accountant“and”32 years imprisonment is enough.“.
Police personnel from the Spanish National Police force are present. In the afternoon, the prefecture said that detours on secondary axes had been established and that road, highway and air traffic “liquid“.
According to Bake Bidea, five militants chained themselves to railway tracks in Bukau, north of Bayonne, in the morning. The prefecture announcedof ongoing police intervention“. Train services were disrupted at around 11am in both directions between Bayonne and Saint-Vincent-de-Tyros (Land), “people on the roadSNCF explained to AFP.
To ban these long-planned activities by activists, Prefect Eric Spitz explained on Friday that they are doing “poses a serious threat to human safety and health”, residents and tourists, this day by the crossover red classified Bison Futé. The organizers maintained their actions, assuring that “have taken all necessary measures to guarantee people’s safety“.
Source: Le Figaro
