Violent protests in Nantes

The violence, which caused six injuries among police forces, emerged when about twenty thousand people, according to the authorities, protesting, to reject the construction of the new airport, after the project had received the green light.

For more than a year that ecologists movements oppose the construction, with some activists occupied the ground, installed in wooden huts. The police have made several attempts to evacuate the area, but to no avail.

One of the protesters noted that "we already have an airport that works well in a city that is the capital of the world", adding that "we are here to say that we have had enough of useless" projects.

Among the opponents of the project are also farmers and politicians of the Green Party, a common front that considers that the new airport would harm the environment and wasting public money at a time of economic crisis.

Police used tear gas and water cannons to quell the protesters, who threw ink and sidewalk stones against the building of the Town Hall and set fire to vehicles and facilities belonging to the company contracted to run the project, which is expected to be ready in 2017, with a cost of 580 million euros.

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