Edf, because Greenpeace upsets France on nuclear power

Thirty Greenpeace activists – with the same organization – they are presented before the Valence Tribunal for intrusion into the whole of the Tricastin nuclear power plant, run by EDF, the 21 February 2020 .

Activists on that occasion had then mimicked its dismantling to denounce its obsolescence.

Upon their arrival at the court, the 12 women and 21 men, aged between 28 and 70, from all over France, were applauded by around fifty people gathered in front of the building.

The director of the NGO Jean-François Julliard said he considered it "scandalous" that the "informants" are so prosecuted. For one of the defendants, the risk is 5 years in prison and a € 75,000 fine.

Reconstructing and briefly the facts, on the morning of February 21, 2020, 33 people were arrested at the plant site, after 25 of them illegally entered the fence, cutting a wire mesh and damaging a fence.

Eight others, prosecuted for complicity, showed up at the main entrance to wave a banner.

The activists had staged a dismantling of the plant – considered "cracked, expired, to be dismantled" – using a small construction machine, drums marked with the hammer symbol and giant wheelbarrows.

The Greenpeace action took place on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Tricastin plant, which was put into operation in 1980. On Saturday, several hundred people demonstrated in Montélimar (Drôme) to demand its closure and support the accused in the trial. In a video posted the day before on Twitter, EDF assured that it was "false" to claim that the life of a plant was limited to 40 years.

In fact, according to Edf, checks at the nuclear power plant are carried out regularly both for reactor one and reactor two.

A result of this nonviolent action made by Greenpeace, EDF is suing the NGO as a person giuridica.Ricordiamo briefly that Greenpeace had already made other intrusions, considered illegal by French law in 2017 in electrical Cattenom (Moselle plants) and Cruas ( Ardèche), and for the latter some defendants had already been convicted.