France to shut down climate NGO after protest violence

Government spokesman Olivier Veran accused the Uprisings of the Earth coalition of encouraging violence at protests in March near Sainte-Soline in western France over irrigation.

Veran said SLT "whipped up violence at Sainte Soline by inviting rioters, who came from across Europe with metal bars and petanque balls to try and kill police officers".SLT is a coalition of several activist associations, which was also behind a recent protest against a sand quarry in western France where protesters tore up fields and equipment at a farm.

On Tuesday, prosecutors also said they had detained 14 people for questioning over vandalism at a protest supported by SLT, against a Lafarge cement plant near the southern city of Marseille.The dissolution of SLT was officially launched by the interior ministry just after the Sainte-Soline clashes in March, using powers that have been previously used to outlaw far-right and Islamist groups.

Some of the demonstrators have vandalised buildings and street furniture or thrown rocks at riot police.

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