Orange paint to call for climate action. The gate of the Hotel de Matignon in Paris was sprayed with paint by activists from the environmental collective Last Renovation this Wednesday, January 4 at midday, in full government re-entry.
On videos relayed on social networks, two men in white t-shirts are overpowered without resistance by the police in front of the paint-stained doors of the official residence of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
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According to the Twitter account “Brains not available”, which joined the collective in this action, the activists are aged 20 and 22 and wore the inscription on their T-shirts “Who is guilty? “.
The paint was quickly cleaned with a Kärcher, according to photos by an AFP journalist on Twitter.
“Forcing a government doubly condemned to act”
Last Renovation, a collective known for its actions of civil disobedience, made it known on the social network that the activists entered, through this action“in civil resistance to force to act a government doubly condemned by French justice and officially outlawed since December 31, 2022”.
One of them had presented this action a few minutes before launching it, at the microphone of the independent journalist Clément Lanot: “One year after the state’s court conviction, the government has still done nothing to repair the damage caused by climate change”he explained.
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In October 2021, the French State had indeed been sentenced by the administrative court of Paris to ” to fix “ its unfulfilled commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming. He had then agreed with four NGOs, united under the banner of the Affair of the Century. If the judgment had left the choice of measures to be taken to “the free discretion of the government”he had fixed that “this repair is effective on December 31, 2022, at the latest”.
