plan for three days
Extinction Rebellion blocks central Paris

4/16/2022, 3:59 PM

They chain themselves to containers filled with cement and block traffic in Paris with bales of hay. With this action, hundreds of activists from the Extinction Rebellion group want to hold off until Easter Monday to draw attention to the climate emergency. The time period was chosen intentionally.

In the fight against the climate emergency, hundreds of activists from the Extinction Rebellion group have blocked a vital traffic axis in central Paris. For a length of 300 meters, they blocked traffic on Grand Boulevards with sit-ins and a barricade made of bales of hay. Many of them had strapped themselves to containers filled with cement. The police did not intervene at first.

According to a spokesperson for the climate protection movement, about a thousand activists gathered in the morning for the three-day campaign, during which discussions and lectures have also been planned. The plan is to hold by Easter Monday, she said. He called upon the citizens to participate in the gathering based on the model of ancient Greece.

“Public Place Businesses”

According to the group, he deliberately chose the weekend between two rounds of presidential elections for his campaign. His spokesman criticized the fact that environmental debate was largely excluded from the election campaign.

“Of course we reject right-wing extremist views,” he said, referring to next Sunday’s runoff election, in which President Emmanuel Macron and right-wing populist Marine Le Pen will face each other.

At the same time, the spokesman announced that Extinction Rebellion would intensify protests with a “blockade and occupation of public space”. The international group had already blocked four bridges in London on Friday.