Homeland security expert Eric Delbecq is the author Uncontrollable. From the utopian extreme left to the violent ultra-left, immersed in unknown France (Grassett, 2019).
LE FIGARO. – According to the Minister of Internal Affairs, 61 gendarmes were injured during the demonstration of environmental activists in Saint-Solin. Does this violence surprise you?
Eric Delbeck: – At all, surprise has long been out of place. Radical environmental activists have always shown that they are capable of violence. To have proof of this, it is enough to recall the various actions they undertook during the occupation of the territory of Notre-Dame-de-Lande. At that time, the Zadists even set traps that could seriously injure the gendarmes (in particular, with stakes or improvised explosive devices).
For many years, the threat was not underestimated, but was deliberately silenced for political reasons…
Source: Le Figaro
