The support to GMO reapers criminalized by some French courts

During its last Council in Kiev, in November 2005, the European Green Party decided to launch a proposal to be relayed by every national Green party: the members of the EGP proposed that in each State Greens will request from competent authorities to declare themselves European GMO-free regions.

Indeed, Greens unanimously condemn open field cultivation of GMO.

GMO cultivations are currently developing in France without any democratic debate taking place. The volunteer reapers, among whom many Greens, activists and elected people have decided to apply the precaution principle regarding these cultivations. Today, some are heavily condemned by justice to prison suspended sentences and to very heavy fines. For instance, Gilles Lemaire, former national secretary of Les Verts is facing a procedure of seizing of his furniture and savings. 

The Greens of the EGP unanimously condemn these processes of criminalization of the volunteer reapers activists and are assuring them of their support.

The EGP requests its representatives in the institutions to support the implementation of the polluter-payer principle so that those responsible for environmental damages will at last have to fully repair them.