They repainted the residence of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. At midday on Wednesday, two activists from the environmental collective “Last Renovation” managed to spray orange paint on the facade of Matignon.
Several videos of their action were broadcast on social networks. The two activists were immediately arrested by the gendarmes who ensure the security of the premises, confirmed the Paris police headquarters.
According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, these two activists, a 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, were placed in police custody for degradation of property intended for public utility and contempt of person responsible for authority. public.
“Let our cries of revolt be heard”
“As long as the government continues its criminal inaction, we will continue to use all non-violent means at our disposal to make our cries of revolt heard,” the collective warned in a press release.
A cleaning team quickly intervened to erase the traces of paint.
The Prime Minister, in charge of ecological planning, was Minister of Ecology in 2019 and 2020. She assumes, in her words, a “complex” ecology and “responsibility”, which “refuses simplism”.
The Last Renovation action took place shortly before the Prime Minister received the social partners in the afternoon at Matignon on the pension reform.
In recent months, the collective “Last renovation” has multiplied actions of civil disobedience. Activists sit on the asphalt to try to block traffic on major roads.