Overview

• Up to 2,000 activists camped at Château de Scopont from July 4 to 6 for the “Turboteuf” protest against the A69 motorway project.
• Prefect Laurent Buchaillat issued orders banning anti-A69 gatherings in 17 Tarn communes over “manifest risks of serious public-order disturbances.”
• Pro-motorway interests have appealed the February court suspension and are backing a parliamentary bill to retroactively validate the project’s environmental approvals.
• Organizers evaded the prefectural ban by holding the festival on Bernard d’Ingrando’s private estate without formal legal responsibility.
• Authorities deployed roughly 1,500 gendarmes, helicopters and armored vehicles to contain the protest, responding to stone-throwing with tear gas.