Biarritz (AFP)
Officials of the anti-G7 movement, including Alternatives G7 and G7 EZ, began Monday a symbolic march to try to penetrate to the "red zone" of the G7 summit in Biarritz, to "publicly" the seven leaders of "illegitimacy".
Followed by dozens of activists, the three spokespersons, Aurelie Trouvé, Izia Fernandez and Enault Aramandi, "arm in arm in a Basque human chain" set out for Place Clemenceau, "the official place of the G7" but were quickly stopped by police, an AFP journalist said.
The red zone, in the center of Biarritz where the leaders of the seven countries meet, is subject to strict access authorizations to ensure security.
The leaders of the G7 "have succeeded on nothing, this system for the richest and multinationals will continue and the G7 has nothing changed," lamented Aurelie Trouvé, during a press conference in Paris. after which the march was launched.
"We want to hand over to the pyromaniac and hypocrites leaders our declaration and our joint manifesto written at the end of the counter-summit on Friday," she explained, ruling the G7 "illegitimate".
"We must radically transform our economic model to meet the ecological imperatives" by taking "drastic measures", she said, listing: "massive disinvestment of fossil fuels, taxation of 'big polluters', relocation of activities, development public transport, remedies for the climate emergency, tax evasion, patriarchal domination, the hegemony of multinationals ... ".
Opponents of the G7 have organized from Wednesday to Friday a "counter-summit" that gathered in Hendaye (southwest of France) and Irun (nearby, Spain) some 5,000 people, according to them.
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