An activist from the Last Renovation collective, which is asking the government for a major energy renovation plan for housing, climbed on the roof of the Pantheon in Paris on Monday and clung to the pole of the French flag which overlooks the monument, according to the Twitter account. of the collective. A 24-year-old activist, according to this same source, “lowered the flag”, a “symbol” chosen by the collective “in order to underline the seriousness of the danger faced by the French population at a time when no significant measure is taken by the government to curb global warming.
“I am an ordinary citizen. I love my country, and I can no longer bear to see its population and its landscapes sacrificed by a lying and criminal government, commented on the social network Sasha, the 24-year-old activist. If I lower the flag today, it is because we should be in mourning for all the people who already die every year from floods, fires, famines, in short from climate change. »
Burst on the lawn of the Parc des Princes
“There is no longer any scientific doubt about the fatal and unprecedented nature of what awaits us if we do not act. Repeated meteorological disasters, familiar territories that have become uninhabitable, lack of water and food”, commented the collective, which calls for “the implementation of an ambitious plan for the thermal renovation of buildings by 2040, on the model of the proposal for the Citizens’ Climate Convention. »
A dozen activists from the “Last renovation” environmental movement blocked the A6a motorway near Arcueil in the south of Paris last week, causing heavy traffic jams, then on the same day an activist from the movement interrupted an opera in full performance. at Bastille. The collective has already carried out actions of “disobedience” since the spring, at the Roland-Garros tennis tournament then by interrupting the Tour de France cyclist and blocking the Paris ring road or avenue Édouard Vaillant in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Six activists will be judged on November 22 in Auch (Gers) on the count of “obstructing the circulation of vehicles” on the Tour de France. On October 16, an activist of the movement also burst onto the lawn of the Parc des Princes in Paris during the Classico PSG-OM.