reprieve for environmental activists who interrupted the Toulouse-Stade Français match
The environmental activists who clung to the poles during Toulouse-Stade Français were sentenced to two…
reprieve for environmental activists who interrupted the Toulouse-Stade Français match
The environmental activists who clung to the poles during Toulouse-Stade Français were sentenced to two months in prison suspended.
Two environmental activists close to the Last Renovation collective were sentenced on Wednesday in Toulouse to a two-month suspended prison sentence. for interrupting the Stade Toulousain-Stade Français rugby match in November by clinging to the posts.
The two men had climbed the Toulouse goalposts before clinging to them with plastic clamps, wearing T-shirts reading “We have 872 days left” and “Le 49.3 kills” . Their action had caused the interruption of the Top 14 meeting, broadcast live on television, for six minutes, before the stewards managed to bring them down.
The defendants are also sentenced to a stadium ban for two years and they will have to pay more than 7,000 euros to Stade Toulouse, for material damage. “As a citizen, to defend the living I have marched, petitioned and we are forced into civil disobedience to make ourselves heard,” said one of the two activists at the helm. Lawyers Mes Clémence Durand and Claire Dujardin have announced their intention to appeal.
In 2022, a Roland-Garros match, but also a Tour de France stage had been interrupted in this way.
