After 48 hours in police custody, the nine Greenpeace activists who entered the Roissy tarmac on Friday morning to partially repaint an Air France plane in green received a summons on Sunday March 7 to appear before the criminal court, we learned from corroborating sources.
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These activists will be tried on June 18, the NGO told AFP.
They are being prosecuted for damage in a meeting, disturbance to the operation of an airport facility and, for eight of them, for refusal to take DNA samples, said the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
“
Our activists have never ceased to warn of the climate emergency in the face of a government deaf to this threat and which continues to pet industrial lobbies in the right direction.
Today, it is those who defend our interests, those of the planet, of future generations who risk legal proceedings while those who threaten the climate are not worried
”, reacted to AFP Jean-François Julliard, director of Greenpeace France.
Friday morning, members of the NGO had partially repainted an Air France plane in green to denounce the government's “
greenwashing
” on environmental issues around air traffic.
The airline and the manager of Paris airports, the ADP group, had announced that they were filing a complaint.
The Minister for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari had also mentioned "
criminal proceedings
".
Around 9 a.m., nine NGO activists dressed in yellow or white climbed the fence that surrounds the airport before deploying around a Boeing 777 parked on the ground without a passenger on board, under the eyes of a journalist from AFP.
Using a roller mounted on a huge pole, they had repainted part of the apparatus green for about ten minutes.
Standing on a wing, several activists had displayed signs on which one could read: "
Is there a pilot to save the climate?"
Or "
the solution: fewer planes
".
The nine had been arrested by the air transport gendarmerie (GTA).
The climate bill, which incorporates certain proposals from the Citizen's Climate Convention, will be debated in the Assembly at the end of March and in a special committee from Monday.
In a statement, Greenpeace asked the deputies to go further, so as not to "
continue as before, without calling into question a development model based on unlimited traffic growth and unsustainable for the climate
".
The NGO also asks that the State support the retraining of employees in the sector.
