Question 7523 — public order

Summary

In order to evict illegal occupants from the area initially planned to accommodate the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport and deconstruct their squats, the Government has decided to provide law enforcement assistance to the legitimate owners and concessionaires of land. In addition, the police had the mission of guaranteeing the viability of the roads crossing this area and preventing all disturbances. to public order. The surface area of ​​the zone to be controlled for the duration of the operations and without interruption, as well as the number of people who were installed there, with a particularly violent and determined profile (300 to 400 radicals out of the 700 occupants of the ex-ZAD), decided the format of the forces deployed, i.e. nearly 2,500 gendarmes including 1,900 mobile gendarmes at the height of the engagements. After an initial phase focused on recovery of traffic in the area between January 20 and March 28, 2018, a first series of evictions and deconstruction of 29 squats was carried out between April 9 and 15, 2018. Finally, during the month of May 2018, a second series of evictions and deconstruction took place involving 10 sites whose occupants had refused to take the necessary steps to regularization of their situation with the prefecture of the Loire-Atlantique. In total, all of the objectives assigned to the police were able to be addressed within the allotted time frame. The human and budgetary resources allocated to the operation were those strictly necessary to reestablish the rule of law and fit perfectly within the scope of the missions of the national gendarmerie.

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