Overview of police investigations tied to a combative demo against mega-basins - Zine (EN/FR)
"Two people alleged to have damaged a water reservoir in Charente-Maritime[2] are on trial this Thursday in La Rochelle. Phone bills, tailing and geolocation... To identify them, the investigators have deployed methods that are out of the ordinary.
Suspects geolocated in real time, their tax, social security or health insurance statements dissected, their telephone bills analyzed in minute detail, their social circle identified; a woman followed and photographed by police even though her cell phone did not locate her at the scene of the crime (she will be exonerated)... This array of methods was deployed by the police in order to find the people suspected of having damaged an agricultural basin in November 2021, in Cram-Chaban (Charente-Maritime). Even though this water reservoir, which was supposed to be used for irrigation, could not be used and was ultimately judged to be illegal."