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After a blockage of the ring road on Thursday in Lyon, 9 activists from the climate emergency awareness collective blocked the rue de Rivoli in Paris on Saturday afternoon.
Brandishing a sign, the activists sat down in the middle of the busy street in the capital's 1st arrondissement.
The blockage notably prevented several buses, a means of public transport yet encouraged by climate defenders – from circulating for less than an hour, until the arrival of the police.
After forcing the group to move to the roadside and restoring traffic, the police took the activists into custody.
On Twitter, the movement explained its approach, which occurs in reaction to the law adopted Friday by the National Assembly tripling the penalties against squatters.
A “
real social bomb
” according to Last renovation, while “
French people in fuel poverty risk finding themselves more easily on the street or in prison
”.
“
Two-thirds of French people are afraid of being cold this winter, twice as many as in 2021
”, alarms the collective.
"
The government must respond to these concerns rather than insisting on criminalizing the poorly housed
."
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The movement, which advocates “
civil resistance
” as the last chance to “
save humanity
”, thus “
demands
” from the State “
a major plan for the thermal renovation of buildings
”.
This blockage follows several others operated in recent days, to draw the attention of the State to the housing emergency.
Before the Fourvière tunnel in Lyon and the Chambaud de la Bruyère boulevard in Lyon at Gerland on December 1, it was at the Levallois bridge to be blocked on Wednesday, and that of Saint-Cloud in Boulogne-Billancourt on Monday.