Twenty-seven activists of Attack and Extinction Rebellion decided to prevent “private jet flightThey were arrested on Monday after entering the runways of Le Bourget airport near Paris, AFP learned from activists and prosecutors. The day was also marked by two actions of another collective, Last Renovation.
The activists in Le Bourget (Saint-Saint-Denis) were spotted by the police in the morning when they were traveling in a truck in the public area of the airport, an AFP reporter said. The police found several dozen activists hiding inside the truck and started checking the identity of each person.
27 people were detained, the Bobini prosecutor’s office told AFP. The retained criminal qualification is not yet known. According to a member of Extinction Rebellion (XR), condemning “abusive procedure“Activists were detained by the police at the La Courneuve police station.
At the end of September, Attac and XR activists had already entered Le Bourget (Saint-Saint-Denis) terminal, which was billed as Europe’s first business airport. “Private jets are a symbol of the government’s refusal to act for a sustainable futureExtinction Rebellion said in a statement. “Why should these super rich pollute as they please while the French are suffering from an energy crisis?“.
Activity at the Pantheon in Paris
For Attac France spokesperson Yuli Yamamoto.the government cannot call for sobriety and tighten belts while multiplying regressive social reforms and pursuing policies that allow the ultra-rich and multinationals to support a consumerist society and lifestyle that is destroying the planet.“.
Civil disobedience movements have multiplied in recent months in Western countries to denounce the inaction of governments and the economic world, disrupting sporting events, blocking traffic or attaching hands to works of art.
On Monday, around 11 o’clock, an environmental activist from the collective “Recent renovationclimbed to the roof of the Pantheon, lowered the French flag and secured it to the mast with a lock before descending. He was arrestedtrespassing on a historical or cultural buildingAFP was informed by a police source. According to another police source, a dozen activists from the same group were arrested later in the day for trying to block traffic on the Sevres bridge in Boulogne-Billancourt (Eau de Seine).
Source: Le Figaro
