Climate activists hold sit-ins in front of the IMF - and are carried off the streets
Created: 06/28/2022, 15:45
By: Lea-Sophie Mollus
Extinction Rebellion and Youth for Climate protest in front of the IMF office in Paris for climate protection.
© Thomas Coex/afp
There are climate protests in Paris and the police have to intervene.
A video of the scene went viral.
Paris – A sit-in on the Paris city highway and a protest in front of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) office in Paris: In both cases, the activists glued their hands to streets or doors.
Many have become active in France these days to protest for various climate goals.
The police took action against the demonstrators.
Protests for the climate: Activists stand firm - police must crack down
On Saturday afternoon (June 25), about ten young climate activists blocked the city highway in Paris.
Some even taped their hands to the street, French news
agency AFP
reports.
After the police forces repeatedly asked the protesters to leave the street, but they refused, the officers quickly put an end to the whole thing, according to a Twitter video by a French journalist from
CLPress
.
French journalist Clément Lanot of
CLPress posted
the video of activists in orange vests going on climate strike on the Paris motorway on Saturday on Twitter.
You can see how a French policeman pulls the taped hands of an activist from the street and he screams.
As the French daily
Le Figaro
reports, the activists were then examined by rescue workers and no injuries were found.
The protesters belong to the climate protest group "Dernière Rénovation" (in German: next renovation).
According to their website, the aim of Saturday's protest was "to win a political victory over energy-related refurbishment".
The activists want to force the government to reduce France's emissions.
Activists in Paris: protests for climate protection
On Monday (June 27) there was also a protest in Paris: climate activists blocked access to the Paris IMF office.
Again, some taped their hands, others tied their arms in tubes.
As the British newspaper
The Guardian
reports, the protest was part of the "Debt for the climate" campaign.
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The protesters called on the G7 countries to waive the debts of developing countries and thus contribute to overcoming the climate crisis.
“We must give these countries the means to fight the climate crisis.
They are the first victims and the last responsible," an Extinction Rebellion activist told
The Guardian
.
In addition to Extinction Rebellion, the Greta Thunberg-inspired movement Youth for Climate and 350.org also attended the protest.
(Lea-Sophie Mollus)
