About thirty environmental activists have built a symbolic wall in front of the Ministry of Ecological Transition

An action by the environmental collective Resistances Locales is underway before the Ministry of Ecological Transition, in Paris, learned franceinfo, Tuesday April 26. About thirty activists symbolically closed the ministry by erecting a wall of cinder blocks tagged with the slogan “Ministry closed, let’s take back the land”, to demonstrate their opposition to the “polluting projects”.

The action called “Back to Earth”, is organized precisely two days after the second round of the presidential “in which we didn’t have much hope anyway”confides an activist on the spot to franceinfo.

Activists say they no longer have confidence in the Ministry of Ecological Transition. About forty punch actions and demonstrations are planned today across France, according to them. “We can give a strong signal of resistance by attacking unjust and polluting projects and ecocidal companies everywhere in the territory”writes the collective on its website, which calls for intensifying “a culture of resistance everywhere in France”.