US EditionEU Court Says France Can Fine Climate Activists Who Stole Portraits of Macron
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The European Court of Human Rights rejected the appeals of environmental activists convicted of having obtained presidential portraits in 2019 in order to denounce the inaction of the state in the fight for the climate. It thus enshrines the idea that civil disobedience can give rise to a penalty.
It is a crucial and alarming subject: the rise of attacks on the rights of environmental activists, a phenomenon that continues to worsen in France...As if state repression was organized.
EU court says France can fine climate activists who stole portraits of Macron
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected an appeal by climate activists who were handed suspended fines for stealing portraits of French President Emmanuel Macron from town halls, dismissing their…
Europe Court Says France Allowed To Fine President Portrait Snatchers
Europe's top human rights court on Thursday ruled France was within its rights to hand suspended fines to climate activists over stealing official portraits of the president from town halls to demonstrate in 2019.
In recent years, France has developed a "legislative arsenal" that "criminalizes" environmental protestors, especially those opposed to the mega-bassins of Sainte-Soline or the A69 motorway of Castre in the Tarn.
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