Tour de France Fans Drag Eco-protesters Trying to Block Race Off the Road
Tour de France fans took matters into their own hands on Saturday as they removed a gang of eco-protesters threatening to disrupt the bicycle race by sitting in the middle of the road to block riders. MailOnline has more.
Eight climate activists from French campaign group Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) sporting T-shirts emblazoned with the message “we have 978 days left” to tackle environmental decline tried to stop the race during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadouron on Saturday.
But their attempts to wreak havoc at the stage were thwarted by spectators, who stormed onto the road and dragged them out of the path of the oncoming bikes even before the police arrived on the scene to make arrests.
Striking pictures have emerged of the enraged fans bowling into the road to pull, push and harry the protesters off the tarmac to prevent them from ruining the race.
Started earlier this year, Dernière Rénovation (DR) is a French faction of the international climate activism conglomerate “A22”, which includes the likes of Just Stop Oil – a U.K.-based group which attempted to disrupt the British Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 3rd.
DR employ similar tactics to those used by the likes of Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain, such as gluing themselves to the road to create congestion in large cities or putting themselves in harm’s way to disrupt major events.
The French faction had already hit the cycling competition three times prior to yesterday’s demonstration, and have promised more action – though the Tour De France draws to a close today on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
A statement released by the group today read: “Citizens supporting DR tried to interrupt the Tour de France time trial, during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadour. Today’s action is the fourth in a series of disruptive actions that will continue until there is a credible and effective government commitment to isolate buildings… If nothing is done, the climate crisis will devastate entire swaths of our planet, as its disastrous consequences in our country have already witnessed this summer, and will condemn billions of people to death.”
Worth reading in full.
Meanwhile, people are asking why the British police can’t respond more like the Italians when eco-protestors target famous artworks. While the protestors who glued their hands to John Constable’s The Hay Wain in the National Gallery in London earlier this month were left alone until police arrested them over an hour later, at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence this week a security guard ripped two protestors’ hands from Botticelli’s Primavera where they had been superglued within minutes and dragged them away.
Good to see some spirited pushback against the disruptive eco-loons.
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They really need to keep doing more of these types of protest. It’s all but guaranteed to turn public opinion against the climate loonies
Public opinion is already against them. Unfortunately, the Eco Loons in the Establishment and cowardly politicians protect them.
“we have 978 days left”
I have a suggestion – put these arrested firkers in prison for 978 days – bread and water diet obvs, and let’s see how they feel on release. If they fail to come to their senses they can have another 978 days.
To which prediction are they referring? There have been so many over the years. Aren’t many of us supposed to be underwater by now?
Why not leave them glued to whatever they’ve attached themselves to? If it’s a road then clear enough of them to make the road passable and leave the rest where they are.
Like all doomsdayers, the moment will come when its not 978 days but 1 day, then THE day, then what will they do? At least they will have to admit they made and error in their calculations..irony…
What I fail to understand is that in the UK or in France, when we have reached nett zero, we have addressed 1% of the global problem. If you don’t tackle the 99% (even accepting Man Made Climate Change is real, which it isn’t), what is the point.? They need to go to China or India and glue themselves to Mao’s mausoleum, or to the Taj Mahal. I doubt they would be treated with any great dignity and care, but these are the sacrifices that you have to make when you are saving the world.
So, If we are all going to die in 978 days unless…..then its time to open the wine and fornicate as much as possible. Actually, I might just do that anyway.
I hope they had glued themselves to the road and lost the skin off their hands when they were dragged off the road.
This is not protest. This is low-key terrorism. The original plan behind the German RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion — faction of the red army) was Gewalt gegen Sachen (violence against things) in order to make people pay attention to their ideas and convictions and the need for a (communist) revolution. They proceeded to bombing attacks and murdering supposed key figures of the establishment after attention had failed to lead to the developments they had hoped for. Assuming these guys are serious, what will they do as winter 2024 draws close and they still haven’t accomplished anything beyond getting the message out to a disinterested audience?
I find it totally shocking that these culturally ignorant twits (I am being polite) glued themselves to the actual painting, and see nothing wrong with defacing something so beautiful and priceless. I hope they can remove the glue from the surface of the picture, but no doubt it will now be in the hands of the restorers for many months, so depriving people of the pleasure of seeing it.
Why the British authorities can’t take the same action against these idiots I have no idea.
Post-modern barbarians demolishing what they believe to be the relics of an alien (and detestable) culture in the name of something which is much more important to them. Supposedly educated people from present-day Canada who have degenerated to the degree that they flame-purify (quote) historic books to atone for the perceived sins of their forefathers would also come to mind here. This is evil stuff we must sacrifice to the gods to avoid their anger! — incredible if it wasn’t true. At schools and universities.