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Spokesman for the "Bassines non merci" collective Julien Le Guet (L), and activists of French environmental activists group "Les Soulevements de la Terre" (Uprisings of the Earth) (SLT) Benoit Feuillu, Nicolas Beauvillain and representative of the French agricultural union Confederation paysanne Nicolas Girod shout slogans after a verdict, outside the Criminal Court in Niort, western France, during a gathering to support union leaders and environmental activists on trial for organising rallies against "mega-basins", controversial large water reservoirs for agriculture, on January 17, 2023. Three activists Julien Le Guet, Joan Monga, aka Basile Dutertre, and Nicolas Garrigues, aka Benoît Feuillu, opposing "basins", controversial irrigation reservoirs, have been sentenced on January 17, 2023, from 6 to 12 months of suspended prison sentence for the organising of banned protests in Sainte-Soline, in which violent clashes with authorities occured. (Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP) (Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)