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"How dare you ?" Eyes filled with restrained anger, Greta Thunberg asked the big boys of this world. From the UN platform in New York, Monday night, the Swedish teenager has asked, on behalf of the thousands of young people who follow her, accounts to world leaders, she accuses "treason" on issues of disruption climate. And France is directly targeted by Greta Thunberg. Along with 15 other young people, she filed an unprecedented complaint before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, against five countries, Argentina, Brazil, Turkey but also Germany and therefore France.
"Very radical positions likely to antagonize our societies"
Information that did not escape Emmanuel Macron, who responded, exclusively on Europe 1, to the teenager. "All the mobilizations of our youth or of the youngest are useful, but they must now focus on those who are furthest away, those who try to block, I do not feel that the French government or the German government today are blocking, "said the French president, also on his way to New York. "When I see that we are going to shut down all of our coal operations, stop the exploitation of hydrocarbons, that we are moving, I am not sure that this is the most efficient way . "
The head of state also called on young people to act concretely in the field. "I think especially now that we need a youth that helps us to put pressure on those who block, mobilizing, and who also participate in very concrete actions." There are lots of citizen actions which are useful, "he said, leaving a last message to Greta Thunberg:" There, very radical positions, it is likely to antagonize our societies. "