Environmental activists interrupted, on Saturday, for ten minutes, the rugby match between the first two of the French championship, Toulouse and the Stade Français, by clinging to the posts.
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Shortly before the 14th minute of the 10th day of Top 14 between Stade Toulousain and Stade Français, Saturday November 5, two men, dressed in T-shirts on which political messages were written, entered the lawn of the Ernest- Walloon. They climbed the Toulouse in-goal posts, before clinging to them with plastic clamps. “We have 872 days left” and “The 49.3 kills”could be read on their clothes.
The action was claimed, on Twitter, by the environmental movement Last Renovation.
The stewards dislodged them using a ladder and the match was able to resume after a short ten-minute break.
“It seemed to me that rugby was not political, but obviously some people appropriate it”, said Ugo Mola, the Toulouse coach, at the microphone of Canal + during the interruption. A match at the last Roland-Garros tournament, as well as a Tour de France stage, were interrupted in this way this year by this same group, which also blocked the A6 motorway recently.