A truly pedestrian street for about thirty minutes… Several activists from Last Renovation, this environmental collective which calls for “a major plan for the thermal renovation of buildings”, blocked rue de Rivoli by sitting on the ground this Saturday afternoon. , in Paris, reserved for buses, taxis and other authorized vehicles (without blocking the cycle path).
🦺 ACTION IN PROGRESS
3:10 p.m.
Right now, a group of 9 citizens supporting #DerniereRenovation are blocking rue de Rivoli in Paris.
[1]#A22network pic.twitter.com/X4Oiq6QrSS
— Last Renovation (@derniere_renov) December 3, 2022
These nine activists "demand that the state protect its population from cold and hunger through a major plan for the thermal renovation of buildings", posted Last Renovation on Twitter.
And the environmental organization to deplore "a real social bomb" in the vote on Friday of the anti-squatter text.
On the spot, the journalist Clément Lanot published on Twitter the video of a motorcyclist wanting to force the passage several times at the risk of crushing the militants.
A scooter tries to force the passage while the militants are attached by chains.
The blocking of @derniere_renov on rue de Rivoli lasted 30 minutes before the intervention of the BRAVM.
pic.twitter.com/G3nbfIgTMQ
— Clement Lanot (@ClementLanot) December 3, 2022
The blockage was lifted about thirty minutes after its start, after the intervention of the police.
Latest Renovation reports that the nine activists have been taken into custody.
The collective Last renovation has multiplied, in recent weeks, the operations punch to alert the government.
Thus, it has repeatedly blocked major roads such as, in Île-de-France, the Paris ring road.
