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Paul François, the French grain farmer who won legal case against @Bayer-#Monsanto, violently attacked at his home france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aquit…
@Bayer Hooded men tied up the victim of pesticide poisoning with electric cables, threatened him with a knife to his throat, in an attempt to make him swallow a liquid, while declaring, "We are tired of hearing you and seeing your face on TV." #Monsanto #pesticides
@Bayer Not the first such attack. In 2020 an organic farmer was hospitalised in France after being poisoned in a pesticide attack on his farm, involving "vast quantities of #glyphosate" gmwatch.org/en/news/archiv…
@Bayer Assassination attempt against farmer Paul François who convicted @Bayer-#Monsanto, runs this headline. The local Senator says she is scandalized by such an excessively violent attempt to silence the courage of this farmer who rose up against Bayer-Monsanto lemediaen442.fr/tentative-dass…
@Bayer In Le Figaro, Benoît Biteau, the French Green MEP and organic farmer, says the violent attack on his friend Paul François reminds him of attacks on his own farm. One attacker, "who'd fired twice at me, told me he was tired of seeing my face in the media." lefigaro.fr/actualite-fran…
@Bayer Of course, it's not just in France where those raising concerns over the agrochemical industry's products have been met with violence. In Brazil, Syngenta was found guilty of the murder of a small farmer protesting against #GMO crops terradedireitos.org.br/en/news/news/s…
@Bayer In Argentina, Prof Andres Carrasco, whose research showed #Monsanto's Roundup caused malformations in embryos, only narrowly escaped violent attackers who left one of his entourage unconscious and another partially paralysed, according to @amnesty web.archive.org/web/2015090718… Image
@Bayer @amnesty In Mexico a senior official told Ignacio Chapela he should drop his problematic GMO maize research. "He makes reference to knowing my family & ways he can access my family. It was very cheap. I was scared. I felt intimidated and I felt threatened for sure" powerbase.info/index.php/Immo… Image
@Bayer @amnesty In the US, Berkeley professor Tyrone Hayes faced a systematic campaign aimed at intimidating him & discrediting his atrazine research. He says a Syngenta scientist even threatened to "have me lynched" & "threatened my wife & daughter with sexual violence" democracynow.org/2014/2/21/sile…
@Bayer @amnesty In the US, an Arkansas farmer who remonstrated about #dicamba drift was shot dead. Another had hundreds of bales of hay set on fire and two tractors vandalized, causing ~$78000 in damage. Because of the threats he's received, Terry Fuller now carries a gun
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