This action, organized two days after the second round of the presidential election, aims to show opposition to “polluting projects”.
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An action by the environmental collective Resistances Locales was held on Tuesday April 26, early in the morning, in front of the Ministry of Ecological Transition in Paris. 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 express their opposition to “polluting projects”.
In Paris, action underway to close the Ministry of Ecology, he who despite his promises lets hundreds of polluting projects in France.
We will not wait and will defend ourselves the lands that this government wants to continue to concrete! ✊
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— Lands of struggle (@terresdeluttes) April 26, 2022
The action called “Back to Earth” is organized precisely two days after the second round of the presidential election. “in which we didn’t have much hope anyway”, confides an activist on the spot to franceinfo. A ballot that ended with the re-election of Emmanuel Macron.
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Activists say they no longer have confidence in the Ministry of Ecological Transition to act against global warming. 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.