Several hundred people entered the site of the chemist Arkema in Pierre-Bénite (Rhône) on Saturday to denounce perfluorinated (PFAS) pollution. Dressed in white overalls, activists from Extinction Rebellion and Youth for Climate cut the entrance fences to the site to enter.
Around ten activists who had not left the site when the police arrived were arrested. The Rhône prefecture reported eight arrests, but “the CRS intervention was still in progress” in the middle of the afternoon.