The arrests took place in the 1st and 6th arrondissements of Paris on Saturday morning. “The French government has deployed a lot of resources to block our Olympic action,” the organization lamented on X.
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They “were preparing to take action”. Forty-five people, “belonging to a radical ecology movement”, were arrested on Saturday July 27, “between 9:25 and 10:35”in the 1st and 6th arrondissements of Paris, franceinfo learned from the police headquarters. Laurent Nuñez, Paris police prefect, “congratulates the police for having, with reactivity, obstructed this action”the press release states.
Earlier, the Révolte olympique account had announced, on the social network X, the cancellation of a “action of civil disobedience”organized “against the social and environmental destruction of Paris 2024”, after “the repression that fell on the activists even before it began”.
“Given the context of the Olympic Games, any action that could be carried out in the city will be immediately repressed. This is what we have seen for several days. There are arrests as a preventive measure, deplores one of the lawyers of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion, Alexis Baudelin, on the same account X. They were arrested and taken into custody even though nothing had been committed.” “Our democracy is burning and we are watching the flame of Paris 2024”, Extinction Rebellion estimates X.
Meanwhile, the Paris prosecutor’s office said that nine people, including a minor, were arrested Friday afternoon in the Bois de Vincennes, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, where cycling events for the Olympic Games are being held on Saturday. Of the nine, “three were already known to the police and justice services”, the public prosecutor specified. These three people were listed as S, according to a police source at France Télévisions, who specified that they were arrested “with climbing equipment” and are “suspected of being ‘radical ecology’ activists.”
After being taken into custody for participating in a group formed with a view to preparing violence against people, destruction or damage to property, the nine people were released on Friday evening and “summoned at a later date by the investigation service as part of the continuation of investigations”the prosecution said.