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“Let’s submerge Bolloré”: in Finistère, an anti-fascist flotilla challenges the Breton billionaire

“Let’s submerge Bolloré”: in Finistère, an anti-fascist flotilla challenges the Breton billionaire
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At the call of the Lever les voiles collective and the Soulèvement de la Terre (Earth Uprising), nearly 70 boats protested on Saturday, May 24, against Vincent Bolloré's presence in the Glénan archipelago. The maritime prefecture had banned the gathering.
On the beach at Cap Coz in Brittany, nearly 200 people await the crews of an anti-fascist flotilla that has come to demonstrate against Vincent Bolloré's presence in the Glénan archipelago. (Alexis Pichot/Libération)

The sun barely rises on Saturday, May 24th in Concarneau (we won't see much of it all day) and the activists of Lever les voiles are already getting organized. For more than nine months they have been maturing this ambitious project in Finistère: to assemble the largest possible flotilla to go and challenge Vincent Bolloré at home, in the Glénan archipelago where he owns an island. Barely a pebble in the Atlantic where he has decided to install as a prison guard the neo-Nazi Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier , former leader of the GUD, a violent far-right group dissolved in June. A provocation for a handful of locals who have decided that this land of resistance will not be the place to shelter a thug and his extremely rich protector.

So they created Lever les voiles, in the summer of 2024, and looked for

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