Violence between farmers and Travellers in Donges: four men before Saint-Nazaire tribunal
Four men appeared before the Saint-Nazaire criminal tribunal following reciprocal violence in Donges. The matter began with an emergency call reporting an armed man driving a tractor.
Tractor, shotgun and emergency call: a neighbourhood dispute ends up in tribunal
According to Google News LU — Crime (fr), gendarmes from Montoir-de-Bretagne received on 7 November 2025 an alarming call from a resident of Donges, in Loire-Atlantique: her son, 31 years old, had just left the family home driving a tractor, a shotgun in hand, in the direction of a neighbouring plot of land occupied by members of the Traveller community. "There will be a murder," she told the gendarmes. "He was heading for a fight," summarised the Public Prosecutor.
On Thursday 3 September, four men aged between 23 and 70 appeared before the Saint-Nazaire criminal tribunal for reciprocal violence committed that day in Donges. The events were part of a neighbourhood conflict that had been simmering for several weeks, if not several months, at the locality of Angle-Moisan.
The site is located across two distinct properties: one belonged to farmers, the other to members of the Traveller community. Relations between the two parties were, according to the evidence presented at the hearing, far from settled. The rest of the matter, detailing the exact nature of the violence and any sentences handed down, was not available in the public version of the source article.
Source: Google News LU — Crime (fr)