Historical Organization
GCO Non Merci
GCO Non Merci
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Organization Timeline
Anti-GCO demonstration draws residents and tractors near Strasbourg
📅 15 October 2016A demonstration opposes the planned Grand Contournement Ouest (GCO), a motorway bypass whose opponents warn of farmland loss, ecological damage and added car traffic. Local environmental groups and...
GCO opponents begin recurring roundabout occupations
📅 17 March 2017Opponents begin occupying roundabouts each Friday as part of a wider campaign of cabins, marches and encampments against the Strasbourg bypass. The tactics make opposition visible across affected...
GCO opponents plant a linden tree at Kolbsheim
📅 25 November 2017At Kolbsheim, opponents plant a linden tree as a public act of attachment to threatened land and a continuing challenge to the motorway project. The action links ecological defense with local memory...
Police clear the Kolbsheim occupation site
📅 10 September 2018Police clear the occupied area at Kolbsheim as construction-related work proceeds. Paris-Luttes, relaying the GCO opposition network, reports a large police deployment and roughly 200 opponents; the...
Opponents rally in Vendenheim against the GCO
📅 22 September 2018Around a thousand people gather in Vendenheim after the clearance at Kolbsheim. The rally renews opposition to the bypass and links village-level resistance to a regional critique of road building and...