“The construction industry is a disaster! “: It is to support this slogan that a hundred activists of the ecologist movement Extinction Rebellion occupied late Tuesday afternoon the site of the cement company Lafarge in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine), according to a source policewoman.
According to Extinction Rebellion France’s Twitter account, a French offshoot of the network created in Great Britain in 2018, this action aims to “denounce the artificialization of soils”, accused of being “a major factor in the 6th mass extinction of living things on Earth”.
🔴ACTION GRAND PÉRIL EXPRESS is playing extra time this Wednesday, June 30!
📌 Meet on the site of #Lafarge at Port de Javel for the continued disarmament of the construction / concrete industry 🔽
🗺️ https://t.co/hzLLyogeBi🚇#GrandParisExpress / #GrandPerilExpress🚧 pic.twitter.com/8L1nRF2UQE
– Extinction Rebellion France 🐝🌺 (@xrFrance) June 30, 2021
Inaction on the climate crisis
According to the police source, this hundred activists began their action around 1 p.m. Equipped with banners, they notably “prevented heavy goods vehicles and employees from entering or leaving by padlocking the entrances to the site”.
The group has been stepping up actions for two years, with blockades of streets or occupations of public places which sometimes give rise to police interventions, to denounce inaction in the face of the climate crisis.