Forty activists from the ecologist organization Extinction Rebellion blocked several hours the berthing of a liner in the center of Bordeaux Saturday, chaining themselves to the structure of a lift bridge, before being dislodged by the police, who made four arrests.
Denounce the pollution of cruise ships
Protesters who intended to protest against the pollution, including sulfur oxide, they believe caused by the cruise ships, have deployed a banner "Signal of distress - Accostons emergency" on the Chaban-Delmas Bridge on the Garonne, north of the city, AFP reported. Some chained themselves symbolically to the pedestrian promenade on the side of the bridge, while half a dozen others, "voltigeurs", sat, roped, to metal beams above the void, between the promenade and the asphalt deck, de facto preventing the lifting of the bridge, which was to intervene at the very beginning of the afternoon to allow the boat to pass.
To dislodge the demonstrators in two stages took more than two hours, and required the intervention, besides the CRS, of a team of intervention in dangerous environment of the firemen, according to the prefecture. Which have negotiated with the last militants roped over the Garonne. The police proceeded to the arrest of four people, who were placed in police custody, it was specified with the prefecture. The liner Riviera, with a capacity of 1,200 seats, was placed at the beginning of the afternoon waiting near the industrial port of Bassens, downstream on the Garonne, and had to dock later.