A burning gendarmerie car in a field. Flames are almost fully consuming the vehicle.

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1. Pictures of Burning Cop Cars (fuckthecopslol@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 01:07:26 UTC Pictures of Burning Cop Cars

   On March 25th, 2023, some thirty thousand activists marched on a construction site in Sainte-Soline, a small community in France, to halt work on several mega-basins, which would monopolize access to rainwater and harm local ecosystems. The french state deployed some 3'000 cops and gendarmes to prevent the activists from reaching the site.

   Pigs and activists clashed, with the cops indiscriminately firing tear gas and "less-lethal" explosives, including at journalists, while they themselves were continually pelted by a hail of rocks. 200 people (activists, journalists, observers) were injured, of whom 10 had to be transferred to the hospital. The french state claimed 24 injured pigs, with one hospitalized (given that I am writing about this on the day it happened, these numbers may change in the future). Despite the brutal police repression, one finger of the convergence managed to briefly enter the construction site and destroy a pump and a central pipe in one of the basins.