Hundreds fight Amazon extension in France

Demonstrators hold a standard perusing "Stop Amazon and its reality" and wave banners as they assemble to challenge Amazon implantation, before the Perpignan Mediterranee Metropole base camp in Perpignan, on January 30, 2021.

Hundreds mobilized in a few French towns and urban communities Saturday in fights called by hostile to industrialist and ecological gatherings against Amazon, including at one site where the US web based business goliath designs a monstrous stockroom.

Amazon intends to set up a 38,000-square-meter (400,000-square-feet) office in the little southern town of Fournes close to Pont-du-Gard, a World Heritage site.

Somewhere in the range of 800 and 1,000 individuals energized at the site, planting bushes before gigantic pennants perusing "Stop Amazon" and "Not here or anyplace."

They shaped a human chain to show the size of the task, while kaleidoscopic inflatables glided 18 meters (60 feet) up to demonstrate the stature of the arranged five-story office.

"It's two years that the residents of Fournes and its environmental factors have battled against the establishment of a monster Amazon distribution center," said Raphael Pradeau, representative of French residents' dissident gathering Attac.

"Toward the beginning they were somewhat alone against everybody, except they have prevailing with regards to ending the venture because of legitimate plan of action."

"We need to show that these are not little disconnected battles and that we can activate many individuals who are prepared to re-visitation of stop the work", said Pradeau.

Sarah Latour, 38, accompanied her two children matured 8 and 6, who planted a bush in waste ground, where plants had once developed.

"These plants, these bushes that we are planting today are an image of life that diverges from the concretisation that Amazon rehearses, she said.

"I accompanied my kids since I don't need this ruinous model for them."

Around 200 individuals additionally revitalized external an Amazon office in Carquefou, a suburb of the western city of Nantes, coordinators said.

"We censure Amazon for destroying a greater number of occupations than they make," said Sophie Jallier, a representative for the coordinators in Carquefou.

Different fights were accounted for in the eastern towns of Ensisheim and Augny.