It is a giant banner, with the message "Climate: take action" and the signature "Greenpeace", that the environmental organization deployed this Thursday morning, on the site of Notre-Dame de Paris. Around 6 a.m., four activists dressed in yellow uniforms and wearing helmets mounted on the crane adjoining the cathedral, about 80 meters high. One of them, suspended in a vacuum, brandished the message "Macron: climate, our drama". At 8:30 a.m., everything was over, and the banner removed.
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"With this action, Greenpeace is directly addressing Emmanuel Macron to denounce its climate inaction," explained in a statement the NGO, which has sued the government for this reason, alongside other associations. “The latest government reshuffle is further proof of the president's lack of ambition. "
Roselyne Bachelot very critical
On France Inter, Roselyne Bachelot criticized this initiative, organized on a symbolic place. "Seem to attack this site so important in the conscious and the unconscious collective ... I believe that Greenpeace does not serve a cause which is otherwise just", reacted the new Minister of Culture. This site is "extremely fragile" and "any intrusion" can have "completely harmful consequences," she said.
. @ R_Bachelot Minister of Culture about the Greenpeace banner deployed on Notre-Dame against the climate inaction of Emmanuel #Macron: "We must respect this site. Activism comes to buffer the emotional, and this is not never productive ":" "# le69inter pic.twitter.com/mRVqH6lHrK
- France Inter (@franceinter) July 9, 2020The director general of Greenpeace France, Jean-François Julliard, for his part indicated that the activists "had not touched the cathedral" and that their action had therefore entailed "no risk either for the building or for the site " He regretted that the Minister replied with "a pirouette" and not "on the merits". "We liked this parallel with a world that must be rebuilt otherwise," explained Jean-François Julliard, to justify the choice of the place of action.
This comes in the wake of the annual report of the High Council for Climate, a body created at the end of 2018 to assess public policies in this area, which warned that the first emergency measures to turn the economy around after the coronavirus crisis n '' did not sufficiently integrate the climate issue.
On Franceinfo, the new Minister of Ecology Barbara Pompili saw in this action "a small welcome gift, a small message of encouragement". "They are always people I like and respect, they are whistleblowers," she said.
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