Twelve police were wounded on Saturday (17 June) in clashes with demonstrators in France’s Savoie department where a protest against a high speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.
Twelve police were wounded on Saturday (17 June) in clashes with demonstrators in France’s Savoie department where a protest against a high speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.
https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/blog/programme-de-la-saison-5
In this case there is already an existing railway line which is only used at 20% of its capacity. With this project you will end up sparing 1h25 on a Paris-Milan. Also they would be supposed to pay taxes so the government can destroy their mountain. It’s nonsense, it’s not answering a demand, it’s trying to create his own demand.
How I see it is that some people still don’t understand, (or don’t care) that we need to spare resource, not spend more. The french are fed up and are not afraid to show it.