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Who is Andreas Malm, the Swedish ultra-ecologist who inspired the far-left activists present in Sainte-Soline?

2023-03-30T17:19:42.079Z


PORTRAIT – A figurehead of radical environmentalism, the Swedish activist has theorized in several works the need for sabotage in the fight for the climate.


Lecturer in human geography, ecologist, author or theoretician, the Swedish activist Andreas Malm multiplies the hats.

Aged 45, this man with a stern look and a worried air is above all the mastermind of radical ecology.

Present in the ranks of activists opposed to the "mega-basins" of Sainte-Soline during the banned demonstration of March 25, or in the procession against the pension reform of March 23, this controversial figure has established himself in the landscape European media on environmental issues by theorizing the usefulness of a certain use of violence in the climate fight, and in particular sabotage.

"We almost felt more in the West Bank than in a Western European country"

He does not speak French, but he knows a phrase:

“Everyone hates the police”.

He likes to repeat it to the press, and also in the gathering of far left activists present in Sainte-Soline.

A “

historic event

” according to him, because it is the first “

major social conflict

” which unfolds around a device…

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Source: lefigaro

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