US EditionFrance arrests activists blocking ship over alleged Russia uranium links
Four Greenpeace activists were arrested after blocking a ship alleged to transport uranium from Russia to EDF, with imports accounting for 25% of France's uranium purchases, officials said.
- Greenpeace France activists used kayaks, Zodiacs and chained themselves to a lock gate to block the Panama‑flagged cargo ship Mikhail Dudin at the Port of Dunkirk on March 2, 2026.
- Timed to the World Nuclear Summit in Paris on March 10, Greenpeace France demands France end uranium imports from Russia and sanction Rosatom; Pauline Boyer said, `This trade, which indirectly fuels Putin's war, must stop`.
- Around 20 Greenpeace protesters gathered at the lock with roughly 20 people in kayaks or chained to the gate, and French authorities arrested four individuals before operations resumed by 09:00 local time.
- Following the AFP analysis, France imported at least 112 tonnes of enriched uranium and its compounds from Russia in 2025, and EDF did not immediately respond to AFP.
- In 2018, EDF signed a 600-million-euro deal with Tenex, Rosatom subsidiary, but the French government ordered EDF to halt trade in 2022 while considering a domestic conversion facility since March 2024.
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Some 20 Greenpeace activists entered the port of Dunkirk on Monday. They tried to block a cargo ship they suspected of supplying France with Russian uranium. Four of them were placed in police custody. - Dunkirk: a cargo vessel blocked for several hours by Greenpeace to denounce the Franco-Russian trade (Police, justice and other facts).
In a protest against French nuclear transactions with Russia, four Greenpeace activists, including one person with Austrian nationality, were detained in police custody in France. About 20 protesters were involved and had partly chained to locks. As the prosecutor's office Dunkirchen announced on Monday, the activists were three women and one man from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. The authorities therefore initiated an investigation for …
French police arrest activists blocking ship allegedly transporting uranium from Russia
An analysis of tracking data shows that the ship in question has made more than 20 round trips between France's port in Dunkirk and Russian ports since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022.
The blockade of the Russian ship with uranium in Dunkirk has once again placed France in the center of an uncomfortable energy contradiction. Greenpeace activists paralysed the freighter Mikhail Dudin upon his arrival at the French port to denounce that the trade in enriched uranium with Russia continues despite the invasion of Ukraine. The action, executed early in the morning by some twenty members of the environmental organization, seeks to p…
Four activists were taken into custody after this action, which stopped the ship for five hours. "This trade that indirectly feeds Putin's war must stop," Greenpeace France hammered in a press release.
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