“Your crimes, our deaths. This Wednesday morning, at the time of the Council of Ministers, six activists from the Last Renovation association poured orange paint all over Place Beauvau, in front of the Ministry of the Interior.
“While we are sounding the alarm, ministers remain cloistered, and deliberately enact criminal policies, leaving aside the most ambitious measure that could save lives: Thermal Renovation. “On the social network X (ex-Twitter), the association of “Civil Resistance” claims its action punch to denounce the inaction of the government in the face of global warming.
“No strong act […] for the climate crisis”
“In the aftermath of a disastrous summer that broke all temperature records with the hottest month of July recorded since the existence of records, and while France is experiencing an abnormal late heat wave these days, the President and its ministers do not seem to be alarmed, ”says the association in a press release published on Wednesday.
Worse, according to Latest Renovation, the president and the government “add fuel to the fire that threatens to consume us all by extending the operation of the two French coal mines until 2024”. A “climate damage policy” which would have cost the lives of 33,000 people between 2014 and 2022, including 7,000 in 2022 alone, who died of heat in France.
“France under an abnormal heat wave. No strong act during the return from the president or the ministers for the climate crisis. A few steps from the Elysée, the activists were then arrested by the police present on the spot.