Five of them were sentenced to 35 hours of community service (TIG) and the three others, who did not accept TIG, to 90 day-fines. The prosecution had requested 50 to 70 hours of TIG against the defendants.
Eight environmental activists from Dernier Rénovation were sentenced on Thursday by the Créteil criminal court to community service or day-fines for blocking the A6 motorway south of Paris last October.
On the evening of October 28, 2022, Friday of departure on vacation, these environmental activists had interrupted for half an hour the traffic on the A6 in the direction of the province by sitting on the tracks at the level of Arcueil (Val-de -Marl).
They wanted to draw attention to the issue of the thermal renovation of buildings. A gesture of “civil disobedience”, according to them, which earned them a referral to court for “obstructing traffic” and “endangering the lives of others”.
Support from a UN Special Rapporteur
These eight activists, men and women with no criminal record, aged 21 to 42, were convicted on the first count and released on the second.
Five of them were sentenced to 35 hours of community service (TIG) and the three others, who did not accept TIG, to 90 day-fines. The prosecution had requested 50 to 70 hours of TIG against the defendants.
The activists were able to count on the support before the hearing of elected officials from Nupes such as the deputies Clémence Guetté and Sandrine Rousseau.
Two renowned personalities, the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, Michel Forst, and Agnès Ducharne, climatologist and researcher at the CNRS, also testified in their favor during the trial.
