Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Al Champagneda

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080802/wl_time/franceswineterrorists
 On July 26, police arrested a vineyard farmer from the region for
production and possession of illegal explosives. Apprehended in a
hospital where he was being treated for injuries suffered when those
explosives unexpectedly detonated, 34-year-old JÉrÔme SoulÈre
confessed to police that he'd been responsible for the July 2006
bombing of a tax collection office in a neighboring village. He also
admitted, police say, to authoring the failed bombing last year of a
site the Tour de France was set to pass the following day.
Those incidents are just two of many in a series of violent and
destructive acts by local grape growers over the past three years that
has targeted public and private buildings, supermarkets, tanker trucks
hauling cheap imported wine, and businesses accused of gouging growers
with ever-shrinking prices. Claiming responsibility: a clandestine
group known as the "CRAV", or "Regional Committe of Viticulture
Action".
CRAV's commando operations began with the 2005 bombing of a state
agricultural building. CRAV members, or independent sympathizers, have
repeatedly carried out bombings or acts of vandalism since, including
three acts of property destruction in a 10 day span in May this year
alone. In mid-July, CRAV logos were discovered spray-painted at a
Narbonne agriculture collective whose vandalized vats had drained
nearly 132,000 gallons of wine on the ground - an estimated loss of
around $450,000. Last year, it sent a video to newly-elected President
Nicolas Sarkozy demanding assistance to the region's grape growers, or
"blood will flow".
Quixotic as it may seem to outsiders, the group - and many Langeudoc-
Rousillon growers who support its aims while condemning the violence
used to achieve them - want the French government to protect them from
a rapidly globalizing market. Foreign wine from cheaper producers such
as Italy, Spain, Australia, the US, and South America - where costs
can be one-fifth of those in France - has saturated the market, and
driven down demand for locally-grown grapes. That has depressed the
price Langeudoc-Rousillon growers get for their crops by up to 50% in
recent years.
With revenues plummeting and production costs on the rise thanks in
part to escalating gas prices, local farmers are demanding financial
aid from Paris. But European Union rules limit how much help the
French government can extend; Brussels has repeatedly urged growers to
cut costs by letting nearly 500,000 acres of land lie fallow, and swap
plonk production for more expensive, higher quality wine.
That doesn't impress locals. "Many of these vineyard owners are
committed to production and investment plans spanning 20 or 30 years,"
says one member of the regional wine sector who asks not to be named
due to "the vivid tension" the situation has created. "These aren't
operations that can change strategy or cut production overnight."
JÉrÔme SoulÈre's lawyer, Jean-Marie Bourland, doesn't justify his
client's avowed acts of destruction, but sympathizes with his client's
predicament. "We're in a country where, alas, our leaders don't pay
attention to well-behaved, and listen to those who leave them no
choice," says Bourland. "Many of these people are agonizing and dying
a slow death," he says. "For some, I suppose, posing a bomb is their
attempt to pose a question." View this article on Time.com

 production and possession of illegal explosives. 
Non vedo l'ora di conoscere il parere di Noam Chomsky.
Tb


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