France Arrests Six over Palestinian Flag on Eiffel Tower
Extinction Rebellion France said the stunt was a message of support for Palestinians and cited more than 72,700 deaths in Gaza, officials said.
- French authorities arrested six people on Saturday after Extinction Rebellion France draped a large Palestinian flag from the Eiffel Tower's first floor on Friday afternoon.
- The activists timed the demonstration to coincide with Nakba Day, which commemorates the 1948 displacement of Palestinians during the creation of Israel.
- A representative for Extinction Rebellion stated the action sent a "message of support" to Palestinians, accusing Israel of "massacres" and "ecocide crimes" in Gaza.
- Israeli military operations in response to the October 2023 Hamas attack have killed more than 72,700 people in the Palestinian territory, according to the Gaza health ministry.
- The Eiffel Tower has previously served as a site for displaying flags; in September, it projected Israeli and Palestinian flags, following a 2023 display of the Israeli flag after Hamas attacks.
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Eiffel Tower Palestinian flag stunt prompts arrests
French police arrested six people suspected of unfurling a large Palestinian flag from the Eiffel Tower without permission, a police source said on Saturday.The climate activist group Extinction Rebellion France said it hung the flag from the Paris monument’s first floor on Friday to show support for Palestinians and accuse Israel of “massacres” in Gaza and “ecocide crimes,” including uprooting olive trees in Judea and Samaria, AFP reported.The …
Six activists of the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion were arrested and detained on Friday 15 May in Paris, after having deployed a Palestinian flag of 12 square meters on the Eiffel Tower, according to Le Parisien. The action took place around 5 p.m. on the roof of the brewery on the first floor of the monument. Suspects are being prosecuted for "unauthorized intrusion into a classified site and endangering the lives of others". Nakb…
French authorities have arrested six people suspected of raising a Palestinian flag on the Eiffel Tower without permission, a police source said on Saturday.
These persons were detained for "unauthorized intrusion into a classified site and endangering the lives of others." The action was claimed by Extinction Rebellion, in memory of the forced exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Six people were arrested on Friday after hanging a flag on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower. The French news agency AFP learned this from the police. The six were arrested on suspicion of “unauthorized entry into a listed monument and endangering the lives of others”.
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