Two environmental activists taken into custody after clinging to poles during the Toulouse-Stade Français rugby match

Dressed in T-shirts with a political message, the two members of “Last renovation” climbed the posts of the Toulouse in-goal, before clinging to them with plastic clamps. The stewards dislodged them using a ladder.

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Two men who had interrupted the Top 14 rugby match between Toulouse and Stade Français for ten minutes on Saturday, November 5, by clinging to the posts, were taken into police custody this Sunday, learned France Bleu Occitanie with the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office.

Shortly before the 14th minute, these two activists, members of the environmental movement Last Renovation “, dressed in T-shirts on which political messages were written, entered the field and climbed the posts of the Toulouse in-goal, before hang on to it with plastic zip ties. “We have 872 days left” and “The 49.3 kills”could be read on their clothes.

The stewards dislodged them using a ladder and the match was able to resume after a short ten-minute break.


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