Airport hunger strike ends after 28 days
Nicola Hebden - [email protected]
Published: 9 May, 2012 CET.
Updated: Wed 9 May 2012 10:32 CET
Activists protesting against plans for a new airport near Nantes have stopped their hunger strike at 28 days.
The activists started the hunger strike a month ago to campaign against the expulsion of farmers who owned the land where authorities planned to build the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport.
They originally started protesting in January this year.
One of the farmers concerned, Michel Tari, said: “The battle will continue, but what is most important is that the farmers concerned, about 100 people, will not be asked to leave in at least the next two years.”
A camp set up during the hunger in Nantes town centre, dubbed as the protesters’ headquarters, is to be dismantled today.
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