12.04.2018 - 15:20 [ Canary ]

A former airport development has become a battlefield between thousands of police and activists

Since 2008, La ZAD has become a thriving community that its residents called “Europe’s largest laboratory of commoning”. Zadistes have built homes, communal kitchens, bike workshops, a radio station, a brewery, a library, and much more. And the camp, home to about 250 people, has support from local residents and farmers.(…)
But on 8 April, around 2,500 police arrived to begin evictions…

(https://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?rubrique71)