A police vehicle was burned by a distress flare, Thursday morning at Notre-Dame-des-Landes (Loire-Atlantique), while the gendarmes intervened to evict a tenant, near the site occupied by struggling against zadistes Construction of the future airport.

from Le Dauphine

The gendarmes had come to accompany 10:00 bailiff who was proceeding with the eviction not paying the rent of the house they occupy. The locality concerned, the spine, is located near the “ZAD” stands for “holding zone” for the airport, renamed “zone to be defensed” by the dozens of opponents who live there since 2010.
A vehicle emerged with five people on board, masked and armed. “They attacked the policeman with with [tr BB Guns? Pellet Guns?] who was alone outside the house,” said an eyewitness.
Armed with baseball bats, they then broke the windows of the police car before setting it on fire with a distress flare. The policeman targeted was slightly injured in the arm by a plastic ball, according to the prosecutor of Saint Nazaire.

Then a group of about fifteen individuals arose wood from the ZAD, “armed, gloved, helmeted,” with “slingshots and sticks” and tried to attack the police, who put them to flight without managing to challenge them.
“I hired sixty gendarmes on the whole area” and a helicopter in an attempt to intercept the attackers, but “they had taken refuge in the ZAD” narrated the police colonel.
The woman living in the house, believed to have alerted zadistes, was placed in custody, as well as her son, who encouraged the attackers, according to prosecutors and police.
The airport, whose inauguration was originally scheduled in 2017, has been suspended since 2012 pending the exhaustion of appeals filed by opponents, which have so far always lost to justice.