There ” revenge “ is on the origin of the ransacking of Melle (Deux-Sèvres) by greater than 100 farmers from the Rural Coordination, on the evening of December 17 to 18, 2025. Around sixty tractors dumped a number of tons of waste, manure and tires in other places within the city of 5,800 inhabitants, focusing on particularly the city corridor and the workplace of MP Delphine Batho (Generation Ecology), candidate for the presidential election in 2027. Gathering locations for the “anti-bassines” motion in Deux-Sèvres, the Café du Boulevard and the Genellerie farm had been additionally focused. The agricultural union thus wished to make the environmentalist mayor Sylvain Griffault (52), who’s looking for a second time period, pay the value for his dedication.
Immediately elected in 2020, a yr after the creation of the commune with the grouping of 5 rural cities, Mazières-sur-Béronne, Melle, Paizay-le-Tort, Saint-Léger-de-la-Martinière and Saint-Martin-lès-Melle, the previous creative director and affiliation chief had a movement voted towards the development of huge alternative reserves on the Sèvre Niortaise watershed, which crosses the Marais poitevin. The Mellois municipal council expressed its opposition, not “to the principle of agricultural irrigation”however to the dimensions of the undertaking carried out by the Deux-Sèvres Water Cooperative, contemplating that it could have ” consequences “ on the territory.
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