“I will never let go”: the angry farmer erects a boot of tricolor straw in front of the Confolens sub-prefecture

For fourteen years, Yves Quériaud, the sixties, has been in conflict with the state. A legal fight that the farmer leads against the subsidiary of EDF responsible for the management and development of the electricity distribution network and against the State concerning a photovoltaic installation. He believes that his electricity produced has never been at the price which appeared in the texts at the time of the installation of his park.

“The arbitrariness, poison of the Republic”

He had installed solar panels on his new sheepfold. Building permit obtained on October 15, 2009. In the process, the State decides to revise the purchase rates of the kilowatt. ERDF assures that the man did not send his purchase request contract in time. Yves Quériaud contests, says that it was the manager who did not transmit it to ERDF. The breeder estimates his annual loss at 20 to 25,000 euros following the price change.

“It’s my” I accuse “. »»

14 years of procedure

Since then, it was on seven occasions, at the administrative court, at the Court of Appeal, at the Court of Cassation, in criminal, and before the Council of State, that Yves Quériaud lost to court. But these years of procedure do not discourage it. “14 years of procedures but I know I’m right … I will never let go. When I dumped manure in front of the sub-prefecture, I was sorry because it disturbed but I needed to express my anger. And with the criminal procedure, they would have been forced to ask me for the reasons for this anger and thus to look at the entire situation. »»

With this new action this Sunday, July 13, Yves Quériaud wants to denounce “the arbitrariness, the poison of the Republic. This is my “accuse” of Zola. »»

“We sit on the facts, the evidence such as the prefectural certificates or the error of judgment of the Tribunal de Poitiers, and the law. I was even able to prove that ERDF employees knew that I was right but that management did not want to know anything, “he says, not determined to disarm.