London (AFP)

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell on Wednesday won a victory in the Scottish court, which banned activists from the environmental NGO Greenpeace to address its platforms in the North Sea.

The energy group's lawsuit followed the Greenpeace activists' October installation of giant banners denouncing the pollution of Royal Dutch Shell on two of its platforms, northeast of the Shetland Islands, and prompting it. to dismantle its old drilling rigs.

"Shell cleans up behind you," "Stop oil pollution at sea," including banners hanging on Shell's disused and rusty platforms in the Brent oilfield, according to Greenpeace photos.

According to a Shell spokesman, this was "to prevent protesters from entering the 500-meter safety zone surrounding platforms in the Brent Field, putting themselves at risk as well as Shell teams ".

"We wholeheartedly support the right to demonstrate peacefully and safely," he said.

According to Shell, only one of the four Brent Field platforms is currently staffed.

Greenpeace acknowledges that the court decision is a "setback" but it intends to continue its fight against the tanker. "Shell can try to shut us up, but we will simply raise the tone," she said.

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