1.Militant French farmer Bove detained following violent protest near Bordeaux
2.French activist farmer Bove held in custod
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1.Militant French farmer Bove detained following violent protest near Bordeaux
The Associated Press, November 4 2006 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/04/europe/EU_GEN_France_Militant_Farmer.php
BORDEAUX, France: Police in southwestern France detained militant farmer Jose Bove after a protest Saturday against genetically modified foods turned violent, local officials said.
About 150 activists attacked several silos in the town of in Belin-Beliet, near Bordeaux, dousing water onto dried corn they suspected was genetically modified.
Bove was detained after he and about 50 other protesters went to the local police station to file a complaint against the silos' manager, whom they said fired on them twice with a shotgun and rammed his truck into three of the protesters' cars.
The man was also taken into custody, police said. He acknowledged having fired the gun, but insisted he did so only once, into the air.
Bove is well known for ransacking a McDonald's restaurant in France in 1999. He was sentenced last year to four months in jail for destroying a field of genetically modified corn planted by another U.S. seed company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., in southern France in July 2004.
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2.French activist farmer Bove held in custody
Reuters News Service, Nov 4 2006
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?storyid=2006-11-04T213352Z_01_L04205269_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-AGRICULTURE-BOVE.xml&type=worldNews&WTmodLoc=World-C3-More-8
BORDEAUX (Reuters) - Police detained radical farmer Jose Bove, a possible candidate for France's 2007 presidential election, on Saturday after a demonstration against genetically modified food (GMO) on private property.
Bove and some 50 other farmers went to the police to file a complaint of attempted murder against a corn producer. The owner, who was also held, had fired a gun in the air to disperse the demonstrators, police said.
Between 100 and 150 protesters went to the farm in the southern Gironde region and poured water over what they said was genetically modified corn stocked in a silo in the town of Lugos.
When the owner arrived, he fired his gun and ran his car into four vehicles before the demonstrators overpowered him.
Bove, a prominent protester against globalisation and fast food, said in June he would run for president next year, hoping to rally voters on the far left.
In 2003 he spent six weeks in jail for smashing up a McDonald's restaurant and was sentenced to four months in prison last year for destroying a field of genetically modified corn in southern France.
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