Déméter, the gendarmerie cell which monitors opponents of productivist agriculture
The Ministry of the Interior created Déméter, an intelligence unit dedicated to "attacks on the agricultural world". This police and judicial system risks being used to monitor animal and environmental activists opposed to industrial agriculture.
Target “ideological” and “symbolic” actions
The device contains novelties which give it an unprecedented scope. The clearly stated objective, first, is to gather intelligence. The targets, then, are widened. It is no longer just a matter of worrying the perpetrators of theft and damage: to this is added pell-mell the "illegal occupation of agricultural land" (by Travelers or for "free parties"), animal intrusions into farms (in particular to make videos), anti-fur, anti-hunting actions, or even the perpetrators of degradations affecting butchers and slaughterhouses. The press kit is clear, the targets are therefore also political: Demeter will follow and will try to prevent "actions of an ideological nature, whether they are simple symbolic actions to denigrate the agricultural milieu or actions hard with material or physical repercussions ”. "I asked that antispecism be one of the priority axes of intelligence," declared the Minister of the Interior when the cell was launched. Animalists are therefore on the front line, but filigree, associations and activists critical of the dominant agricultural system (defended by the FNSEA and the JA) are also concerned.
By amalgamating all the misdeeds identified, the Ministry of the Interior seriously concludes that there was a 1,5% increase in damage to the agricultural world in 2019. But of the more than 14.000 incidents recorded, the vast majority are thefts and burglaries. Questioned by Reporterre, the National Gendarmerie informs us that only about twenty cases of trespassing in animal husbandry or release of animals by anti-species activists were counted among the offenses last year. The FNSEA, it does not report much more: 41 intrusions - but probably more we are told - in 2019. Étienne Gangneron sees this as an “exponential” figure, because “there were less than a dozen intrusions in previous years ”.
Taking the figures from the gendarmerie and the FNSEA, the animal protection association L214 calculated a percentage of “0,28% [of acts of animalist associations], pinned down and associated with acts of vandalism unrelated to “justify” an excessive repressive arsenal ”. "The FNSEA very clearly seeks to ensure that no image comes out of the farms," says Brigitte Gothière, spokesperson for L214.
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ALL FLICATED
Basically it's: "let us pollute in peace, eat our shit, shut your mouths otherwise it's jail".
Better and better!
