Two days after the great day of mobilization against the pension reform of French President Emmanuel Macron social tension moved this Saturday to the countryside, where environmentalists gathered thousands of people in concentration against some macro-embalms for irrigation.

Among the demonstrators in the municipality of Sainte-Solin, in the west of the country, thousands of riotous, masked and black-clad people, some of them from neighboring countries, have infiltrated attacked the forces of order, who arrived to protect those artificial reservoirs, were indicated by the authorities.

Some vehicles from the gendarmerie were set fire to Molotov cocktails thrown by rioters standing in front of barricades erected by agents who tried to disperse them with a water cannon and tear gas.

Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin assured that 24 gendarmes Switched off injuredone of them was seriously injured, with a head injury, as a protester, both were taken by helicopter to the hospital, without fear for their lives.

Six other demonstrators were slightly injured, according to the minister, who condemned attacks on gendarmes trying to evacuate them.

Darmanin considered the attacks on the gendarmes “extremely violence, never sawand accused left-wing politicians of not condemning this kind of action strongly.

“This is unacceptable,” the minister said, accusing some politicians of “spitting in the face of gendarmes who behave exemplarily.”

The authorities assured that the aggressive groups acted with explosives, some of which were confiscated the day before during the introduced checkpoints, as well as with incendiary materials.

Departmental Prefect (Government Delegate) Emmanuelle Dube, who recalled that demonstration was not authorized, indicated that she also confiscated mortars and others knivessuch as axes, machetes, knives and petanque balls that were meant to be thrown at agents.

Some 3200 agents were deployed in the area to prevent protesters from reaching the ponds and they threw about 4000 boats tear gasthe minister said.

More than 6000 fightersjudging by the numbers Government, 25000 in accordance with organizersmost of them are peaceful.

They first focused on a nearby agricultural field, borrowed by a farmer who shares their claim, to later travel to the site of a pond where they discovered police barricades.

After an exchange of shells with agents, the situation calmed down, and the bulk of the demonstrators settled in nearby lands. In the first half of the day there was a second assault, but never managed to break through the police cordon.

Between slogans many appeared in against from Macron and his pension reform, passed last Monday, which has already sparked nine days of protest in the country this year, with a tenth scheduled for next Tuesday.

Majority belonging protesters they were fighters ecologists who oppose these large ponds, which collect rainwater for irrigation, but which, in their opinion, prevent the restoration of the water table.

Some deputies and representatives of the French Ecological Party also took part in the march.

The action took place in an agricultural area in which many such ponds accumulate, defended some to fight the epidemic, but others see it as a bet on industrial and semi-environmental agriculture.

These new clashes with the forces of order come after Government outside accused from overuse belonging force during demonstrations against pension reform.

Several media outlets have published images of the agents hit protesters and a video of them insulting one of them.